Wikipedia: Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, born March 15, 1943, in Tehran, Iran, is a retired Iranian professional wrestler better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik. He is known for ending the near six year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign of Bob Backlund and for being the man Hulk Hogan defeated for his first WWF Championship, setting off the Golden Age of professional wrestling. He was also a bodyguard for the Shah of Iran's family several years while they still lived in Iran. In 2005, Khosrow was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame >>>
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| What did the trees do wrong? | Oct 04 | 86 |
| Ancient Persian Zoroastrian oddities | Oct 03 | 66 |
| Mujahedin's fate in Iraq | Oct 06 | 53 |
| If you were a Jew | Oct 05 | 49 |
| فیلم تکراری؟ | Oct 08 | 43 |
| Person | About | Day |
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| Daron Malakian | Rock singer, guitarist | Oct 11 |
| Japanese Farsi | Japanese girl speaks Persian | Oct 11 |
| Rudi Bakhtiar | On NPR | Oct 09 |
| Firouz Naderi | Are we alone in the universe? | Oct 09 |
| Hamed Haddadi | Getting ready for his first season of professional basketball in U.S. | Oct 09 |
| Roshanak Hosseini | 2008 Winner of Sweden's Trivselstjärna talent competition | Oct 08 |
| Mahsa | The Sweet Kill | Oct 08 |
| Sahar Hekmati | "I nominate John McCain because..." | Oct 08 |
| Eskandar Nabavi | Fashion designer: eskandar.com | Oct 07 |
| Kayvon Zahedi | Gets Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature :o) | Oct 07 |
I miss the Sheik
by Anonymous-now (not verified) on Thu Jul 24, 2008 09:41 PM CDTHe was one of my favorite wrestler's...and the only reason I used to watch "wraslin"...He was my hero growing up just because the US needed enemies and what better than an Iranian enemy of the West who carried around the Iranian "Allah" flag and pictures of Khomeini...
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