In 1976, Andy Warhol flew to Tehran to take Polaroids of Empress Farah Pahlavi, whom he had met with her husband, the Shah of Iran, at the White House the previous year during Gerald Ford's administration. Intrigued by this fish-out-of-water story, the playwright Brent Askari admitted .
Andy Warhol is having a moment. The pop artist is the subject of a world premiere play, "Andy Warhol in Iran," running June 2-25, on the St. Germain Stage at