Persia (Iran)
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934-), Iran
- Ali al-Sistani (1930-), Iran
- Ali Khamenei (1939-), Iran
- Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iran
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989), Iran
- Sheikh Haron (1964-), Iran
- Tahereh Saffarzadeh (1936–2008), Iran
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“Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.”
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