A mummy discovered near the Iranian capital "most probably" belongs to the father of the last Shah of Iran, his family has said. The mummified remains were found on Monday during construction at a ...

Shah Mohammad Reza was born into scandal and uprising—and his life somehow only got more dramatic from there. Though he was “The King of Kings,” in Iran, his inner life was anything but exquisite.

The largely peaceful Constitutional Revolution of 1906 forced the Iranian shah at that time to declare Iran a constitutional monarchy with legislative powers vested in a majles, or parliament. The ...

In that 1969 interview, the last Shah of Iran voiced his support for Bahrain's separation from Iran, despite his previous claims of sovereignty over the oil-rich archipelago. Mohammad Reza Shah's ...