Photo: Babak Borzouyeh

Return to motherland: Asiatic lion to return to Iran after 80 years

Eram Zoo in Tehran is now home to the Asiatic Lion, which has been extinct in the country for almost 80 years. The last remaining Asiatic lion was sighted about 80 years ago in Iran. Before and after the Islamic Revolution (1979) Iran made attempts to bring back Asiatic lion to Iran, but Indians did not cooperate.