Yassamine Mather looks at the life of Ashraf Pahlavi who died on January 7 aged 96 Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the ex-shah of Iran, was a deluded, ruthless megalomaniac. Until her last days she believed that the Iranian revolution of 1979 against the rule of her brother was a “plot devised by the… Continue reading A dynasty of ill-gotten gains