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Alborz High School
Alborz High School () is a college-preparatory gifted high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and the Middle East, named after the Alborz mountain range, north of Tehran. Its place in the shaping of Iran's intellectual elite compares with that of Eton College in England and institutions such as Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Milton Academy in the United States. History The school was founded as an elementary school in 1873 by a group of American Presbyterian missionaries led by James Bassett. This was in the 26th year of the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, 22 years after Amir Kabir founded the Dar ul-Funun in Tehran, and 33 years before the Persian Constitutional Revolution. When Dr. Samuel M. Jordan arrived in Iran in 1898, he instituted change; subsequently, Alborz became a 12-year elementary and secondary school, with its share of college courses. Thereafter, the institution came to be known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enqelab Street
Enqelab Street (Persian: ; also spelled Enghelab) is a major trunk route in Tehran, Iran connecting Enqelab square to Imam Hossein Square Imam Hossein Square, or Meydan-e Emam Hoseyn, is a square in eastern central Tehran, Iran. It was designed by Karl Schlamminger. Transportation * Enqelab Street * Damavand Street * 17 Shahrivar Street * Mazandaran Street * Tehran BRT Line Im .... The street's full name is ''Enqelab-e Islami'' (Islamic Revolution Street) and it was named in honor of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Its former name was Shah Reza Street after Rezā Shāh, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. See also * Girls of Enghelab Street * Toranjestan Soroush References External links * {{Main quarters of Tehran Streets in Tehran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State University Of New York
The State University of New York (SUNY ) is a system of Public education, public colleges and universities in the New York (state), State of New York. It is one of the List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment, largest comprehensive systems of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by chancellor John King Jr., John B. King, the SUNY system has 91,182 employees, including 32,496 faculty members, and some 7,660 degree and certificate programs overall and a $13.37 billion budget. Its Flagship#Colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States, flagship universities are Stony Brook University, SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island in southeastern New York and University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo in the west. Its research university centers also include Binghamton University, SUNY Binghamton and University at Albany, SUNY, SUNY Albany. SUNY System Administration Building, SUNY's administrative offices are in Albany, New York, Albany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi () (born August 14, 1975) is a founding and former member of hard-line pressure group Ansar-e Hezbollah, a former member of the Basij militia, and an Iranian journalist. Quitting Ansar-e Hezbollah after its involvement in the attack on students in 1999, he was imprisoned in Iran, fled to Turkey and then Germany, where as of 2009 he worked to publicly identify members of plain-clothed men who beat up Iranian protesters of the disputed election. Biography Ebrahimi states that in 1988, when he only just 13 years old, he forged an ID and volunteered to fight in the Iran–Iraq War. After the war, believing their sacrifice had given them the right to make "some demands", he and other veterans founded the Ansar-e Hezbollah (Supporters of the Party of God), to serve as guardians of the Islamic revolution, defending it from corruption and Western influence. He rose through the ranks of the organization and became the managing editor of the group's newspaper, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Revolution Guard Corps
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khomeini as a military branch in May 1979 in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.''IISS Military Balance 2006'', Routledge for the IISS, London, 2006, p. 187 Whereas the Iranian Army protects the country's sovereignty in a traditional capacity, the IRGC's constitutional mandate is to ensure the integrity of the Islamic Republic. Most interpretations of this mandate assert that it entrusts the IRGC with preventing foreign interference in Iran, thwarting coups by the traditional military, and crushing "deviant movements" that harm the ideological legacy of the Islamic Revolution. , the IRGC had approximately 125,000 total personnel. The IRGC Navy is now Iran's primary force exercising operational control over the Persian Gulf, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defense And Armed Forces Logistics (Iran)
The Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL; ) is the defence ministry of Iran and part of the country's executive branch. It thus reports to the President of Iran, not to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces. Unlike many countries, the ministry is not involved with in-the-field military operational command of the armed forces. Instead it is responsible for planning, logistics and funding of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran while the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a separate institution under command of the supreme leader of Iran, has control over the forces. The MODAFL is also the major player in the defence industry of Iran, with multiple conglomerates and subordinates active in research and development, maintenance and manufacturing of military equipment. It annually exports military equipment manufactured in Iran to forces of countries such as Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, and Sudan (the latter ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Chamran
Mostafa Chamran Save'ei () (2 October 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as " Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War. Early life and education Chamran was born into a religious family on 2 October 1932 in Tehran. He received religious education from Ayatollah Taleqani and Morteza Motahari. He studied at Alborz High School and then graduated from University of Tehran with a bachelor's degree in electromechanics. In the late 1950s, he moved to the United States for higher education, obtaining an M.S. degree from the Texas A&M University. He then went on to obtain his PhD in electrical engineering and plasma physics in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley. In the book ''Self-construction and developmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Behzad
Professor Mahmoud Behzad (, b. 1913 - d. 2007), born in Rasht, the capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of modern biology in Iran. He wrote more than 100 books in Persian and participated in the authorship of more than 200 books in Iran. The son of a lapidarist, Behzad completed his initial education in Rasht before pursuing his bachelor's degree at the teachers' training college (''Dāneshsarāy-e 'Āli'') in Tehran. He was the founder oIran Scholarly Books Editing Organizationand was fluent in English, French and German. Behzad was known for the books of French science writer Jean Rostand and English naturalist Charles Darwin that he translated. He worked for more than five years in Alborz High School as vice president and biology teacher. In the last years of his life, Behzad worked in Shargh pharmacy in Rasht where he was ready to answer his fans and former students. He died due to stomach cancer in his home in Rasht. His older son, Prof. Faramarz Beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian University Entrance Exam
The Iranian University Entrance Exam, simply known as Konkour ( Persian: کنکور; from the French '' Concours''), is a standardized test used as one of the means to gain admission to higher education in Iran. In order to receive a PhD in non-medical majors, there are three exams, all of them called Konkour. By 2023, 80% of top 3000 students were from private schools, while only 20 percent from public schools. Iran had 2183 universities in 2022 and started a program to merge them and reduce the number down to 400 universities. In September 2023, the Iranian government rolled back changes to the Exam to before 2020 and delayed changes until 14-06-2026, making the Exam a more important factor than high schools grades and finals. Rules change Iranian Government's Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution in 2020s greatly changed the structure of university enrollment admission reducing share of this test exam to less percent of total grade score. In the total the test were change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tehran
The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching profile, UT has been nicknamed "Mother University" (, ). It is also the premier knowledge producing institute among all Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC countries. The university offers more than 111 bachelor's degree programs, 177 master's degree programs, and 156 Doctor of Philosophy, PhD. programs. Many of the departments were absorbed into the University of Tehran from the Dar ul-Funun (Persia), Dar al-Funun established in 1851 and the Tehran School of Political Sciences established in 1899. The main campus of the university is located in the central part of the city. However, other campuses are spread across the city as well as in the suburbs such as the Baghe Negarestan Campus at the central easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi Gilani (; 23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran. Founder of Sharif University of Technology (originally Aryamehr Technical University) and dean of Tehran Polytechnic University (currently renamed to Amirkabir University of Technology). Memoirs of Mohammad-Ali Modjtahedi (Persian) 2000 were published as part of Harvard University's Iranian Oral History Project, editor Habib Ladjevardi. Life He was born in Lahijan, Gilan in the northern part of Iran. He started his elementary school at the age of seven at Haqiqat school after which he came to Tehran to continue his education at the Dār-ol-Mo'allemin-e Markazi in 1925. He finished high school at Madrese-ye Motavassete in the eastern part of Tehran and received his high school diploma in 1931. In 1932, among 100 other prominent students, he was sent to France for higher education. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
