Images and news reports shared online fuelled speculation that the body belonged to Reza Shah Pahlavi. His tomb, also in Shahr-e Ray, was destroyed after the 1979 revolution but his remains were ...

In 1924 a military commander named Reza Khan seized control of the country and deposed the Qajars. He became Reza Shah and adopted the family name Pahlavi. Reza Shah undertook a radical modernization ...