This led to public discontent, and along with the increasingly authoritarian regime, massive protests erupted which, in the end, resulted in the overthrow of the shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
Generally, the years toward the end of the 8-yearlasting post Islamic revolution war between Iraq and Iran around 1985–1987 some Persians refugees started settling in Norway.
Mazyar Keshvari was a deputy member of parliament for the Progress Party and also sat on the Oslo City Council; he is an outspoken activist for human rights in Iran.
[4] Masud Gharahkhani is a key politician for the Labour Party, and was candidate for becoming the first non-Western mayor of a Norwegian town in 2011 but lost in the election.
[7] Another Labour party politician, Farahnaz Bahrami, who fled Iran in 1990, became a Norwegian citizen in 1997 and was elected deputy member of parliament for Hedmark county in the period 2009-2013.
[10] In the news media, journalist Mina Ghabel Lunde worked for several years as a reporter for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation before becoming PR-chief at Warner Music Norway.