Princess Ashraf, twin sister of Iran's last shah, dies at 96

Behind-the-scenes power broker and campaigner for women's rights who was immortalised in a portrait by Andy Warhol Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the country's deposed shah whose glamorous life epitomised the excesses of her brother's rule, has died after decades in exile. She was 96. Before Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, many in the country believed Princess Ashraf served as the true power behind her brother, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and pushed him into taking power ...