The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks across a garden in the British Embassy, Tehran, Iran. He is followed by dignitaries including the young Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Churchill reviews the British and Indian Colonial troops. Three soldiers representing the British and Indian Colonial Regiments hold gifts for Winston Churchill celebrating his 69th birthday. Each man steps forward, delivers a speech and hands a gift to Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill addresses the soldiers. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi again visible behind Churchill. Soldiers raise their hats and cheer. Winston Churchill salutes and walks off. (World War II period, during Tehran Conference).
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran. He climbs the stairs. Marshall Joseph Stalin stands at top of the stairs. The U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit on a porch of Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Cameramen take photographs. General George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Admiral EJ King, General HH Arnold, General Sir Hastings Ismay, Sir Alexander Cadogen, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Averell Harriman and Marshall Voroshilov stand behind.
United States President Richard Nixon visits Tehran, Iran. President Nixon and the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon arrive in a limousine for a state dinner at the Niavaran Palace (Tehran Province Tehran District 1 Niavaran St, Niavaran Square, Iran). President Nixon, Mrs. Nixon and others enter the palace. President Nixon shakes hands with people.
Trucks and a horse cart on the road in Tehran, Iran during World War II. View of a monument possibly depicting Reza Shah Pahlavi, the first Shahinshah of Iran. Hafte Tir Square, also known as 25 Shahrivar Square before the revolution. Pedestrians cross the street. A Reza Shah equestrian statue stands on the square in front of the modernist Ganz building, also known as the Qanab building, purportedly designed by Roland Marcel Dubrulle. Closer view of the building and its windows. Pedestrians walking outside the modernist building.
Tehran as the “Persian Corridor” during World War II. A black car stops in front of the Hotel Ritz in Ferdowsi Square, Tehran, Iran. A cart pulled by a horse pass by the hotel. Some pedestrians cross the street across the Hotel Ritz. Pedestrians walking past the Texas Café and Restaurant in downtown Tehran. Several multistory buildings. View looking down on a horse-drawn cart moving along a tree-lined city street. National Council building in Baharestan Square, Tehran. Minarets of the Sepahsalar Mosque (Tehran Province, Tehran, Allameh Sharif-e-Razi, Iran). A bus drives past the Sepahsalar Mosque. Donkeys, bicycles, and pedestrians are also seen.
Two palace guards stand outside the Golestan Palace and Royal Museum in Tehran, Iran. (Tehran District 12 Panzdah-e-Khordad St Fifth Khordad Avenue Arg Sqr, Iran). Two Iranian guards stand by the entrance of the museum. A soldier walks past the entrance. Intricate relief plaster work decorates the ceiling inside the Golestan Palace. Intricate tile in courtyard.