This included destroying the enormous tomb in south Tehran of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the military strongman who seized control of the country in the 1920s and abdicated in favour of his son in 1941 under pressure from the British. However, Hassan Khalilabadi, the head of Tehran City Council’s cultural heritage and tourism committee, was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency on Monday that it’s “possible” the mummy is the body of Reza Shah. “I warn the responsible authorities not to hide anything,” he wrote. “The area surrounding the shrine was previously a cemetery so discovering a body in this area is natural,” said its PR director Mostafa Ajoorloo, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. Oh my God!” wrote one Twitter user.
A mummified body is found at Shahr-e Rey which Iranian media reports possibly belongs to former country's king, Reza Shah. His mausoleum was destroyed after 1979 Revolution.