The Funeral in Cairo on this day in 1980, following his death from cancer just a year after being exiled. The Funeral Procession was followed by dignitaries, including the King Constantine II of Greece, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and former President Richard Nixon, through the streets of Cairo to the Al Rifa’i Mosque, where the Shah remains buried alongside his former brother-in-law, King Farouk of Egypt, and where his father, had also initially been buried.
