Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri

Qamar-ol-Molouk Vaziri (Persian: قمرالملوک وزیرى) commonly known as Qamar (Arabic for moon) (b. 1905, Takestan, Iran- d. 5 August 1959) was a famous and beloved singer in Iran, and the first woman to sing in Iran as women when Vaziri started her career were not allowed to sing. She is known as the Queen of Persian music. She is known as the first woman in Iran to perform without a hijab in front of men.

She was a popular, pioneering Persian mezzo-soprano, much revered for her mastery of the repertoire of Persian vocal music (radif-e āvāz) and her sensitive rendition of taṣnif or through-composed metered songs (taṣnif, tarāna).

She is buried at Zahir o-dowleh cemetery.

Early life and career

She was born in 1905 in Takestan, Iran. Her mother died because of Typhoid fever when Ghamar was only one year and a half. She already had lost her father and therefore her grandmother was her legal guardian. Her grandmother, Molla Khayr-ol-Nesa' Khayr-ol-Zakerin was a Rowze-khan (Singer of soaz) in Naser-al-din Shah Qajar darbar.

Ghamar (3D radar)

Ghamar (3D radar) (Persian: رادار سه بعدی قمر) is an Iranian native production in electronic warfare. This radar can coverage and search in three dimensions (3D) and distance of more than 450 Kilometers. Ghamar can track more than 100 targets such as fighter aircraft and drones. The radar send data to Absar video-imaging system that can set up on fighter jets and drones. Ghamar radar were unveiled with another defense products during the ceremony by Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, Iran’s defense minister.

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