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French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef to direct film on last empress of Iran Farah Pahlavi
the last Empress of Iran, who was married to the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for 20 years before he died in exile in Egypt in 1980, reported Deadline. The script being developed simultaneously ...