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Golnaz Esfandiari

Iran
Shrouded In Mystery: Mummified Body Could Be That Of Iran’s Reza Shah

Shrouded In Mystery: Mummified Body Could Be That Of Iran’s Reza Shah

Golnaz Esfandiari

Persian Monarch Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power in 1925, but he was forced to abdicate under Allied pressure in 1941. He died in exile in 1944 and his remains were returned to Iran in 1950. Has a symbol of Iran’s pre-revolutionary past come back to haunt it? Speculation that a body found near a […]

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