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Yesterday’s Kids

Childhood photos of some Iranian figures of art, literature, politics, and pop culture.

Zell-e-Soltan

Mozaffaredin Shah

Ahmad Shah

Mirza Ibrahim Khan Qavam ul-Mulk

Mohammad Mossadegh

Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini

Ali-Akbar Shahnazi and his father Agha Mirza Hosseingholi Farahani

Ruhollah Khaleghi

Mehdi Bazargan

Sadegh Hedayat

Ehsan Yarshater

Maryam Firouz مریم فیروز

Hossein Behzad

Amir Abbas & Fereydoun Hoveyda

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Ardeshir Zahedi

Bijan Taraghi

Ali Shariati

Fereydoon Moshiri

Ahmad Shamlou

Jaleh Esfahani

Abulhassan Banisadr

Iraj Pezeshkzad

Nader Ebrahimi

Gholamreza Takhti

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari

Ahmadreza Ahmadi

Omran Salehi

Sohrab Sepehri

Homayoun Khorram

Farah Diba Pahlavi

Hannibal Alkhas

Esmail Khoi

Noureddin Zarrinkelk

Mahshid Amirshahi

Kamran Diba

Kambiz Derambakhsh

Khatereh Parvaneh

Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani

Ali Khamenei

Hassan Rouhani

Mohammad Khatami

Kaveh Golestan and his sister Lili Golestan

Gholam-Hossein Saedi

Morteza Momayez

Davood Emdadian

Mostafa Chamran

Ali Larijani

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Shahrnush Parsipur

Googoosh (Faegheh Atashin)

Iraj-Janatie-Ataie

Khosrow Shakibai

Abbas Kiarostami

Dariush Eghbali

Ebrahim Haghighi

Behzad Golpayegani

Farhad Mehrad

Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)

Lili Golestan

Susan Taslimi

Ardeshir Farah (Photo by Maureen Ruddy Burkhart)

Leila Forouhar

Akbar Abdi

Reza Pahlavi

* Ardeshir Farah’s Photo by Maureen Ruddy Burkhart

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