Zartusht Payāmbarī kah az Naw Bāyad Shinākht: Persian 1397

Kaykhosro Shahrokh, nicknamed Arbab Kaykhosro (July 7, 1975, Kerman, July 1, 1941, Tehran). He was the founder of the national telephone network of Iran, the founder of the Majles library, the discoverer of Ferdowsi's burial place and the founder of Ferdowsi's tomb, a Zoroastrian representative in eleven terms of the National Consultative Assembly (second to twelfth terms), and the head of the Tehran Zoroastrian Association. Arbab Kaykhosro is remembered as one of the most prominent figures in the Zoroastrian community of Iran and one of the most well-known figures in contemporary Iranian history. Arbab Kaykhosro traveled several times to Europe, Russia, India, and America. He was known for his honesty and financial soundness. He left behind several schools and high schools. In the last year of Reza Shah's reign, at the age of 65, he was suspiciously killed in Tehran. Arbab Kaykhosro was born into a Zoroastrian family in the city of Kerman. His father, Shahrokh Zoroastrian, died when he was a baby. His ancestors were active in the trade and astrologers of the Zand and Qajar courts. After his father's death, his mother turned to weaving and supported him and his brother through this. As a child, he worked as a laborer and at the same time studied a little literacy at the Zoroastrian School of Kerman. At age twelve, he went to Tehran and studied at the American Boarding School, while working at the American Hospital. At sixteen, he traveled to India for a year with his savings. He continued his studies at the Dar al-Fonon in Bombay. At the age of 21, he was appointed director of the Kerman Zoroastrian School by the Bombay Persian Charity Association and returned to Kerman and engaged in Zoroastrian cultural and social activities. Among these activities was the establishment of three girls' schools, two boys' schools, and a high school called the Zoroastrian National High School. The land for these schools in the neighborhoods of Formutan and Shahr was donated by the Zoroastrian capitalist Arbab Jamshid, and for this reason they became known as the Jamshidieh Schools. During these years, Arbab Kaykhosro learned English, Russian, and Arabic, and he learned the Quran and its translation. In 1944, he went to the port of Odesa in Russia via Khorasan, but due to the Russo-Japanese War, he returned to Iran after a while. At the age of thirty, he emigrated to Tehran for the second time and worked in a money exchange office.