Jahan Pahlavan () was a rank champion in the Iranian Guards before the

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Ferdowsi Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a single poet, and the gre ...

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, "Jahan Pahlavan". In contemporary Iranian history,

Gholamreza Takhti Gholamreza Takhti (, August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Iranian Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler and a practitioner of Varzesh-e Bastani, varzesh-e bastani (''Persian traditional sport'').Houchang E. Chehabi, �TAḴTI, Ḡolā ...

is referred to as the "Jahan Pahlavan". According to Sadruddin Elahi, the term "Jahan Pahlavan" in reference to Gholamreza Takhti was first used by

Siavash Kasrai Siavash Kasrai (February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996; ) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party o ...

in a poem by him called the Jahan Pahlavan, and this title remained on the throne.Manuscripts of Dr. Sadruddin Elahi

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