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The Shah of Iran visited Stockholm in 1960, here he is riding the escalator down to a station on the Stockholm Metro to be given a demonstration of the metro system (digitaltmuseum.se)
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This was unexpected!

I was just looking at photos of the Stockholm Metro and suddenly I found this which I had no idea about!

This photo was taken by an unknown photographer, and belongs to the Stockholm Public Transport museum, they have licensed it out on a CC-BY-NC license.

I believe this photo was taken at the central metro station, though the listing does not say, it mentions however that the Shah got to travel in the driver's cab of a train on the metro's green line between T-centralen and Stora Mossen.

The Shah was a horrible dictator, there is no denying that, if I made him seem sympathetic in this post, that was not my intention, I just wanted to share an interesting photo I found.

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 1 points 3 days ago

Some fascinating history about him from Wikipedia:

Reza Khan [the father of the person in the post] believed if fathers showed love for their sons, it caused homosexuality later in life, so to ensure his favourite son was heterosexual, he denied him love and affection when he was young, though he later became more affectionate toward the Crown Prince when he was a teenager.

As Shah, Mohammad Reza [the person in the post] constantly disparaged his father in private, calling him a thuggish Cossack who achieved nothing as Shah. In fact, he almost airbrushed his father out of history during his reign, to the point of implying the House of Pahlavi began its rule in 1941 rather than 1925.