TEHRAN – Iranian actor Mohammad Pursattar died due to heart failure at his home in Tehran on Thursday morning. He was 78.

He mostly appeared in a number of Iranian historical, religious TV series including “The Men of Angelos” and “Prophet Joseph (AS)”, both by Farajollah Salahshur, and “Mokhtarnameh” by Davud Mirbaqeri. 

His funeral procession will begin from the Iranian House of Cinema in Tehran today. He will be buried in Behesht Zahar, Tehran’s major cemetery.

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