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Iran's secret billion-dollar art collection How did the most valuable collection of modern western art outside Europe and the US end up in Tehran? 5 April 2021 • 5:00am The Tehran Museum Of Contemporary Art Credit: Alamy People ask me, ‘What do you think of when you think of Iran?’” says Farah Pahlavi, the 82-year-old widow of the country’s last Shah, speaking to me via Zoom from her wood-panelled Parisian home. “I think of the mountains. Especially Damavand, the volcano, which I could see from the palace. And I think of the streams, the trees, ordinary people…” She sighs. “Of course, I miss my country, the country that I knew. But I keep hope that Iran will rise from her ashes.”