Famous Iranian People

Based on the clues, name these famous people from Iran, past and present.

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Hint	Person
Great king who established the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great
Spiritual leader who founded Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster
Great king who ruled the empire at its greatest extent	Darius the Great
Successor of the above who fought against the 300 Spartan soldiers	Xerxes the Great
Leader of the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini
King the above overthrew during that revolution	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
President who signed the nuclear deal	Hassan Rouhani
The controversial predecessor of the above	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Former president and the current supreme leader of Iran	Ali Khamenei
Democratically elected prime minister who was overthrown by the CIA in 1953	Mohammad Mosaddegh
Author of the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, "Shahnameh"	Ferdowsi
Western name of the Islamic Golden age polymath, Abu Ali Sina or Ibn Sina	Avicenna
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith	Bahá'u'lláh
Her death started a series of unrest in 2022	Mahsa Amini
General who was assassinated by U.S. drone strike near Baghdad in 2020	Qasem Soleimani
First football player to reach 100 international goals	Ali Daei
President who died in a helicopter crash	Ebrahim Raisi
Polymath who wrote the first book on Algebra in which we are given the words "algebra" and "algorithm"	Al-Khwarizmi

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