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Abdolrahman, Hassan: American convert to Islam who carried out an assassination on behalf of the Islamic Republic and then took refuge in Iran.

Alavi Tabar, Ali-Reza: Islamic revolutionary and holy warrior in the war against Iraq who later became an influential figure in Muhammad Khatami’s reform movement.

Amini, Reza: subordinate of the famous Isfahani commander Hossein Kharrazi.

Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan: the Islamic Republic’s first president, who later revolted against Ayatollah Khomeini and was forced into exile.

Bazargan, Mehdi: provisional prime minister after the Revolution, who resigned during the US hostage crisis.

Emami, Saeed: senior Intelligence Ministry figure of the 1990s, alleged mastermind of the ‘serial murders’ of dissidents.

Forouhar, Darioush: a minister after the Revolution, he fell out with the religious establishment and was one of the final victims of the ‘serial murders’.

Forouhar, Parastu: justice-seeking daughter of Darioush Forouhar.

Ganji, Akhar: investigative journalist, jailed for his part in exposing the ‘serial murders’ of dissidents in the 1990s.

Ghorbanifar, Manuchehr: arms dealer involved in the Iran – Contra scandal.

Hashemi, Mehdi: fanatical revolutionary whose rift with the establishment led to the exposure of the Iran – Contra scandal.

Hossein b. Ali: third Shia Imam, who was killed at Karbala in 680.

Khalkhali, Sadegh: revolutionary official, Iran’s ‘hanging judge’.

Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali: second president of the Islamic Republic and Khomeini’s successor as Supreme Leader, or Guide, of the Islamic Revolution.

Kharrazi, Hossein: inspirational Isfahani war commander.

Khatami, Muhammad: elected president in 1997, he failed to implement most of the democratizing reforms that he envisaged.

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah: father of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic’s first Supreme Leader, or Guide.

Makhmalbof, Mohsen: revolutionary film-maker.

Montazeri, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali: Khomeini’s designated successor, stripped of the succession for being too independent.

Muhammad Mossadegh: controversial prime minister who nationalized Iran’s oil industry and was deposed, in a CIA-run coup, in 1953.

Pahlavi, Muhammad-Reza: the final Shah of Iran, deposed in the 1979 Revolution.

Pahlavi, Reza: the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, the Shah’s father.

Rafii, Muhammad-Ali: Isfahani cleric, subordinate of Hossein Kharrazi.

Rafsanjani, Ali-Akhar Hashemi: president between 1989 and 1997.

Rezai, Mohsen: Revolutionary Guards commander during the Iran – Iraq war.

Shirazi, Sayyad: army chief during the Iran-Iraq war.

Teyyeb, Haji-Rezai: Tehran mafioso.

Zarif, Sadegh: revolutionary, seminarian and, latterly, film-maker.