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The V&A museum’s Epic Iran show is the first British exhibition for a long time to give an overview of how Iran’s complex culture developed over thousands of years. And its curator hopes it’s a way to get visitors to think beyond Tehran’s recent tensions with the west.

When a major exhibition of Persian art opened in London in 1931 it was the first chance for Britain to study up close the culture of a