Iranian democracy activists

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.

Reza Pahlavi is an Iranian political activist and the former Crown Prince of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress Farah. He lives in the United States as a dissident in exile.

Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (born 1969)

Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist(1933-1977)

Iranian lawyer and human right activist

Iranian architect and politician

cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989

Iranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)

Iranian poet (1927-2014)

Iranian politician

Iranian writer and philosopher

Minister of gender equality, Human rights and gender equality activist

Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran.

Iranian entertainer (1936–1992)

Iranian Shia cleric and political activist

Iranian journalist

Iranian protesters in hijab status

Iranian philosopher

Iranian-Canadian blogger

Iranian singer and guitarist

American academic

Iranian grand ayatollah (1937-2020)

Iranian philosopher

Prime Minister of Iran (1870-1937)

Iranian journalist, jurist, Political activist

Persian jurist and politician and founder of the National Front

Iranian journalist

Iranian academic

Iranian politician

Iranian journalist, writer and activist

Iranian Reformist politician, activist, women's studies professor.

Iranian politician (1928-1998)

Iranian journalist

Iranian journalist

Iranian humanitarian activist (1958–2011)

Poet, politician, attorney (1924–2017)

Iranian politician (1959-2008)

Iranian political activist, writer and satirist

Iranian politician (1932–2018)

Iranian activist

Iranian human rights activist

Iranian writer

Iranian journalist

Iranian activist

Iranian political scientist

Iranian technology student

Iranian filmmaker, activist and journalist

Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate

Iranian politician

Iranian activist against mandatory hijab

Iranian journalist

Iranian politician

Iranian writer

Iranian lawyer and academic

painter, translator and artist

Iranian activist (1969–2006)

Iranian journalist and human rights activist

Iranian politician

Iranian human rights activist and former president of the University of Tehran