Construction workers discovered the mummified remains while working at the Shiite shrine of Abdul Azim, whose minarets once rose behind Reza Shah’s own mausoleum. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A mummified body discovered near the site of a former royal mausoleum in Iran maybe the remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the country’s last shah. Reza Shah abdicated in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, at the insistence of the occupying British forces. Reza Shah ended up in South Africa, dying there in 1944. Khalkhali later would write in his memoirs that he believed the shah’s family took Reza Shah’s body when they fled the country.

Source: thestar April 24, 2018 14:15 UTC