Given Iman’s lineage, the wedding could have been a grand spectacle with hundreds of attendees. Instead, invitations went to fewer than 150 guests, many of whom flew in from the U.S., London, and the Middle East. While the day itself was about love, many in the diaspora interpreted the union as subtly political. For decades, the Pahlavi name has carried both nostalgia and controversy, and Iman’s marriage—especially to a Jewish-American—was viewed as an emblem of progress, tolerance, and defiance of old prejudices.
