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On September 4, 2018, Mohsen Hashemi was re-elected as the head of the Tehran City Council. This election took place at the beginning of the second year of the fifth term of the Te…
Read eventOn September 4, 2017, Hassan Yazdani won the gold medal at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships.This championship solidified Yazdani's position as one of the most important …
Read eventOn September 4, 1997, Bijan Najdi, the Iranian poet and story writer, passed away.Najdi's name is most associated with the story collection "The Leopards Who Have Run With Me"; a b…
Read eventOn September 4, 1990, Mehdi Akhavan Sales, the prominent contemporary poet of Iran, passed away.Akhavan Sales, known by the pen name "M. Omid," was one of the most important figure…
Read eventOn September 4, 1988, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 620; one of the most important international documents related to the use of chemical weapons in the Ir…
Read eventOn September 4, 1978, Iran was in one of the most critical weeks before the revolution. The burning of the Rex Cinema in Abadan had occurred a few days earlier, and protests contin…
Read eventFazlollah Zahedi.
Only a few days after the coup d'état of August 19 and the fall of Mohammad Mossadegh's government, Fazlollah Zahedi, the prime minister of the new government, wrote a letter to Dw…
Read eventSeptember 4, 1941, one day after the start of the attack by British and Soviet forces on Iran, Reza Shah's government tried to prevent the expansion of the crisis through diplomacy…
Read eventOn that same day, September 3, but two years before the occupation, in 1939, Amjadieh Stadium was opened in Tehran, and the first official football matches were held there. This ev…
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