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Masoud Taheri

Iranian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ88230140 ↗
Source-derived summary

Masoud Taheri is an Iranian film director and writer. He is known for his documentary films on Iranian-Islamic thought and philosophy.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Masoud Taheri” as iranian film director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Masoud, Taheri and Iranian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Masoud, Taheri and Iranian providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q88230140. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Masoud Taheri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.