"It is like you wake up the next day and the entire world now knows who you are," says Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, who is 2 feet, 1.6 inches tall Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the ...

Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, from a remote village in Bukan County, northern Iran, has now been recognised by the Guinness World Records as the shortest man alive, with a height of 2ft 1 inch (65 ...