As Americans react to the U.S. air strikes on Iran this weekend, there's renewed attention on Iran's rulers, past and present. The royal family of Iran has roots in southern Connecticut, and Farah ...

The Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza.

Farah Diba's iconic fashion sense tried to stitch together Iran’s imperial past with a modern future. After the revolution, her memory still lingers as a symbol of what their country could have been.

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct the untitled feature film project centered on the life of Farah Pahlavi, the last Empress ...

The new girl is Farah Diba, 21, slender and tall (5 ft. 8 in.), with shiny black eyes and curly chestnut hair worn in a carefully untidy nouvelle vague coiffure.

Farah Diba had succeeded where two before her had failed. The Shah’s first wife, Fawzia, sister of Egypt’s then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced her in 1948.

“Few can argue that Farah Diba Pahlavi lived an extraordinary life. Although she lived at the extremes of what life can offer, from the glamorous heights of united adoration as Empress of Iran ...

Iran's former empress Farah Diba Pahlavi called the women protesting the Iranian regime "courageous" in an interview with i24NEWS senior diplomatic correspondent Christian Malard that aired ...

Farah Diba further said that the film industry runs in her blood, and Altaf Hussain is considered one of the best and senior-most directors in the Pakistan film industry.

The Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza. Getty Images. From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah.