Famous Iranian or Persian People

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

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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
Founder of the Achaemenid dynasty	Achaemenes
Best-selling poet in the United States	Rumi
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
Author of "Layla and Majnun"	Nizami Ganjavi
Democratically elected prime minister who was overthrown by the CIA in 1953	Mohammad Mosaddegh
Leader of the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini
King the above overthrew during that revolution	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Former president and the current supreme leader of Iran	Ali Khamenei
President who signed the nuclear deal	Hassan Rouhani
The controversial predecessor of the above	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"House of Sand and Fog" and "The Expanse" actress	Shohreh Aghdashloo
Controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view	Forough Farrokhzad
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith	Bahá'u'lláh

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