Religion: Shia Muslim

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Religion: Shia Muslim

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Shohreh Aghdashloo Actor 11-May-1952 House of Sand and Fog

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Head of State 28-Oct-1956 President of Iran

Fouad Ajami Author 9-Sep-1945 Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS

Nouri al-Maliki Head of State c. 1950 Prime Minister of Iraq

Iyad Allawi Head of State 1945 Iraqi Prime Minister, 2004-05

Bashar al-Assad Head of State 11-Sep-1965 Syrian president

The Báb Religion 20-Oct-1819 9-Jul-1850 Forerunner of Baha'i

Nabih Berri Politician 28-Jan-1938 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament

Hafez Poet 1326 1389 Prominent Persian poet

Ibrahim al-Jaafari Head of State 1947 Prime Minister of Iraq, 2005-06

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Politician 1926 Head of Iran's Guardian Council

Ayatollah Khamenei Head of State 15-Jul-1939 Supreme leader of Iran

Yahya Khan Head of State 4-Apr-1917 10-Aug-1980 President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide

Mohammad Khatami Head of State 29-Sep-1943 President of Iran, 1997-2005

Ayatollah Khomeini Religion 24-Sep-1902 3-Jun-1989 Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran

Mohammed Mossadegh Head of State 19-May-1882 5-Mar-1967 Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53

Hassan Nasrallah Terrorist 31-Aug-1960 Hezbollah Secretary-General

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Head of State 25-Aug-1934 President of Iran, 1989-97

Muqtada al-Sadr Military 12-Aug-1973 Militant Shiite Iraqi cleric

Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf Government 1940 Iraqi Information Minister

Hussain al-Shahristani Government 1942 Iraqi Minister of Oil

Ayatollah al-Sistani Religion 4-Aug-1929 Highest ranking Shia cleric in Iraq

Fazlollah Zahedi Head of State 1897 2-Sep-1963 Prime Minister of Iran, 1953-55

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