Melanie Phillips draws attention to the Twitter thread by Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department Iran official. His Twitter account is here. I am taking the liberty of simply copying the Twitter thread Phillips quotes for your information. In the thread Noronha refers to Reuters reporting on Iran. I think he must be referring to this story and others compiled there. Phillips calls her Substack post Perfidy in Vienna? If
The Tehran museum is filled with 55 cars, two coaches and four motorcycles, the confiscated property of the toppled regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Before they were ousted by the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran’s royal family enjoyed a lavish lifestyle with a taste for fast cars quite unlike any ever built. Now, after half a century hidden away, the royal racers are back on show, with the Iran Historical Car Museum drawing in thousands since it opened to the public in recent weeks.