Though it might seem like a simple case of divided loyalties — two sides, two flags — the reality is more nuanced.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and a critic of the country’s clerical leaders, pauses for a photo after an interview with The Associated ...

This chimes with more recent history, too: there was a lion and sun figure at the centre of the flag of the Imperial State of Iran, which was overthrown and replaced by the Islamic Republic of ...