Category: Shah Riza Pahlavi was embarked on a mission to celebrate himself as the heir to the “Peacock Throne

I have great memories of stern-looking, uniformed women guiding traffic at the center of Tehran’s busiest intersections on my month-long visit in 1968—they were human traffic signals. And fond memories too of beautiful, scantily clad Iranian women with their handsome and strikingly dressed young paramours in the bowling alley next to Tehran’s Hilton Hotel.Read Rich’s Post →