Iran seeks to retrieve illegally-exported artwork sold at Christie’s 

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
announcing a portrait of Qajar king Mozaffar ad-Din Shah was missing from the UNESCO-designated Golestan Palace in Tehran.The reports
carried a black and white picture depicting the painting set up above the exit door at Talar-e Berelian (Berelian Hall), the main hall of
some investigation, Director General of Museums and Historical-Cultural Properties Morteza Adibzadeh confirmed the reports in an Instagram
Then, our office, in line with its legal responsibilities, will begin pursuing an uncompromising agenda based on international law to return
the painting that at one time had hung on a wall in the Golestan Palace, there appear to be discrepancies.In the portrait on view at the
on the one that belonged to the Golestan Palace.She also noted that the artwork has not been registered by any of the trustees who have
during the Pahlavi dynasty to find any record of the artwork.In an interview, Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, a member of the High Council for
Cultural Heritage and Tourism, also said that Iran has previously signed the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported