Gholamreza Takhti: Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler

As a consequence of his religious beliefs, he always led a simple, squeaky-clean life. Takhti's grandfather, Haji Gholi, owned a supermarket in Khani Abad. He would sit on an elevated seat, called takht in Persian and was thus known as Haji takhti. When in the 1920s the government of Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, decided to issue all Iranians birth certificates and identity cards, everyone had to have a family name, and Takhti became the last name of Haji Gholi.