The theft of five large bronze sculptures from a Tehran gallery revived the memory of one of the capital's unsolved urban art cases; The chain of sculpture thefts in the late 1980s, during which many works of cultural and historical figures disappeared from the streets and parks of Tehran, and many of them were never found.
On the morning of Friday, November 22, 1405, at around five o'clock in the morning, five large bronze sculptures of the works of Muhammad Pesunki were stolen from the balcony of the "Bashga" gallery. Hossein Mohseny, the director of the gallery, said in an interview to IRNA that the photos and specifications of the works were published to increase the possibility of their identification and to warn art market operators about the possible buying and selling of these works. All five statues are about a meter high and their total value is estimated at more than 50 thousand dollars.
This robbery is reminiscent of the serial robberies of the last years of the 1380s for Tehran's artistic community. In a short distance, sculptures of Shahriar, Sattar Khan, Bakr Khan, Sani Hatam, Ali Shariati, "Mother and Child" and several works from artists' houses from different places in Tehran disappeared.