Where is shah of iran buried

Iranians compare Shah's regime with clerics' Shah's younger son kills himself interview with Shah of Iran. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter. It is unclear where the body is now. Who was Reza Shah? Related Topics. Iran Tehran. Published 25 April Published 26 January Hours after the Shah's death, Sadat announced "with great sadness" in an address to the nation the loss "of a friend and a brother".

AFP reported: "Right up to the last moment, flying in the face of criticism, in the Muslim world and in his own country alike, the Egyptian head of state remained loyal to the one he continued to call 'the Shah. The two men's staunch friendship dated back to the early s. The Shah stood by Egypt during the Israeli-Arab war of , sending medical aid and doctors, but especially by allowing Soviet planes to fly over Iran to supply Cairo with weapons and military equipment.

Jomhouri-e Eslami, the newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party, accused the United States of having killed the exiled monarch. Official reaction was limited to parliamentary speaker Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who described the death as "a small problem, without importance". Radical students who had seized 52 hostages at the US embassy in Tehran some nine months earlier, demanding the Shah's extradition, said they were not interested in getting his body back. They said the hostages, who went on to be held for days, would only be released once the Shah's assets were returned.

The anthem of imperial Iran was performed, and Sadat then led a funeral cortege transporting the coffin, draped with the Iranian flag and driven on a gun carriage drawn by six horses, from the presidential palace to the Al-Rifai mosque. Behind him followed members of the former imperial family, representatives of other deposed royal families, including Greece's King Constantine, and thousands of Egyptian soldiers.

His son, Mohammad Reza Shah, succeeded him in and held the Peacock throne until he went into exile in It is not clear what happened to the mummy after its discovery, as some reported it has been reburied. A selfie that appeared online was explained on the Roozarooz news website as having been taken by the driver of an excavator truck. This article is more than 3 years old. Remains found near mausoleum destroyed after revolution, which deposed Pahlavi dynasty.