

The cast of the 28-episode series includes over 200 artists. The series follows the troubled lives of the people under the control of Bozorg Agha's rule as well as the ongoing rivalry between Bozorg Agha and other corrupt political leaders of the time. The conflict created by these circumstances as well as the political activities of Farhad set the background for the story. Ghobad is already married to the sterile daughter of Bozorg Agha, Shirin, who does not take kindly to her husband's growing love for his second wife.

Bozorg Agha uses the influence he has amongst the coup heads to set Farhad free on the condition that Shahrzad agrees to break her engagement to him and marry the nephew of Bozorg Agha, Ghobad. During the coup chaos, Farhad gets arrested and sentenced to death. The son and daughter of two of Bozorg Agha henchmen, Shahrzad and Farhad, are about to get married. Mohammad Mossadegh legal governmental administration on 18 August 1953. The bureaucrat, Bozorg Agha is the head of a very powerful mafia syndicate who had a strong role in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état against Dr. Shahrzad is preferable series a romantic drama in the political climate.

It aired on cable network Film Net on Mondays at 22:00 ( IST) for 28 episodes from October 2015 to May 9, 2016. The Shahrzad series is licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran and available online and in CDs around the country. The series is written by Hassan Fathi and Naghmeh Samini and directed by Hassan Fathi The storyline is set around and after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Shahrzad ( Persian: شهرزاد) is an Iranian romantic/historical series.
