Jafar Panahi — Classmates
Hassan Rouhani
1948
· Age 77
Alive
Shirin Ebadi
1947
· Age 78
Alive
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1934
– 2017
· Age 82
Deceased
Abbas Kiarostami
1940
– 2016
· Age 76
Deceased
Abolhassan Banisadr
1933
– 2021
· Age 88
Deceased
Asghar Farhadi
1972
· Age 53
Alive
Lotfi A. Zadeh
1921
– 2017
· Age 96
Deceased
Hossein Shahabi
1967
– 2023
· Age 55
Deceased
Ali Larijani
1958
· Age 67
Alive
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
1964
– 2024
· Age 60
Deceased
Bahman Ghobadi
1969
· Age 57
Alive
Caucher Birkar
1978
· Age 47
Alive
Simin Behbahani
1927
– 2014
· Age 87
Deceased
Abbas Araghchi
1962
· Age 63
Alive
Mehdi Karroubi
1937
· Age 88
Alive
Nechervan Idris Barzani
1966
· Age 59
Alive
Alenush Terian
1920
– 2011
· Age 90
Deceased
Simin Daneshvar
1921
– 2012
· Age 90
Deceased
Mohammad Beheshti
1928
– 1981
· Age 52
Deceased
Ali Akbar Velayati
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Mohammad Javad Bahonar
1933
– 1981
· Age 47
Deceased
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
1879
– 1959
· Age 80
Deceased
Bahram Beyzai
1938
– 2025
· Age 87
Deceased
Mohammad Reza Aref
1951
· Age 74
Alive
Jamshid Amouzegar
1923
– 2016
· Age 93
Deceased
Al Sayed Musa al-Sadr
1928
– 1978
· Age 49
Deceased
Abdolkarim Soroush
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Mostafa Chamran
1932
– 1981
· Age 49
Deceased
Manouchehr Mottaki
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
1956
· Age 69
Alive
Ehsan Yarshater
1920
– 2018
· Age 98
Deceased
Jafar Sharif-Emami
1910
– 1998
· Age 87
Deceased
Zahra Rahnavard
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Mohammad Ali Jafari
1957
· Age 68
Alive
Shahrnush Parsipur
1946
· Age 80
Alive
Hassan Ali Mansur
1923
– 1965
· Age 41
Deceased
Ali Divandari
1957
· Age 68
Alive
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Massoud Rajavi
1948
· Age 77
Alive
Homa Darabi
1940
– 1994
· Age 54
Deceased
W
William Chittick
1943
· Age 82
Alive
Ali Amini
1905
– 1992
· Age 87
Deceased
Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
1954
· Age 71
Alive
Gholam Ali Rasheed
1953
– 2025
· Age 71
Deceased
Mohammad-Reza Rahimi
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Akbar Ganji
1960
· Age 66
Alive
Ali Javan
1926
– 2016
· Age 89
Deceased
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi
1947
– 2014
· Age 67
Deceased
Mahmoud Hessabi
1903
– 1992
· Age 89
Deceased
Hossein Alizadeh
1951
· Age 74
Alive