'Mr. Churchill Visits Teheran, Persia', 1 December 1943, (1945). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with Major General A Selby, (right), acting Commander in Chief, Persia and Iraq Command, during a visit to Iran in the Second World War. Churchill spent his 69th birthday in Tehran, and held meetings with the Shah. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]