Sattar Khan And Bagher Khan Depart For Tehran
When Tehran was liberated by Bakhtiari and Mojahedin of Gilan, Sattar Khan and other fighters had to seek refugee at the Ottoman embassy in Tabriz. Mokhberossaltaneh Hedayat who had become Azerbaijan governor could not get along with Sattar Khan, that's why he asked Sardar Bahador who had arrived in Azerbaijan to send him to Tehran. Sardar Bahador wrote to Sardar Asad explaining the situation.
After a while telegrams arrived from Azadolmolk, Sardar Asad, head of Majlis and other state authorities inviting Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan to Tehran.
Tabriz came under Russian occupation. Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan each heading 50 cavalries departed for Tehran. After their arrival on March, 26, 1910, the government gave them a place to stay and a salary to make a living. After a while, when the government insisted on disarmement of all groups, Sattar Khan supporters resisted the order and clashed with the army. 30 of Sattar Khan's men were killed and 300 arrested. Sattar Khan was humiliated. Four years later, Sattar Khan died under house arrest and his comrade Bagher Khan was killed in an ambush in Ghasreshirin in 1916.
Revolution eats her own children. (Updated: Oct, 6, 2009)
Newspapers Banned
The Prime Minister who was Ahmad Shah's regent ordered a ban on newspapers that criticized the government. The chief editors of these leftist publications were sent to court and some of them received jail terms. Ahmad Shah had not reached legal age, thus the country was ruled by the regent. Iran was in the middle of the constitutional revolution while the royal Qajar court, under foreign influence was absorbed in corruption.
In order to suppress public discontent, the newspapers were labeled as elements of foreign countries. The Qajar dynasty was overthrown by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925 but the tradition of limiting press freedom has been present ever since. The Qajar Dynasty was replaced with a Pahlavi dictatorship.
The 1979 revolution that topple the Pahlavi regime brought hopes of freedom which gradually faded away with creation of an Oligarchy in which censorship is widely practiced in all forms of media including the press and the internet. (Updated: May, 26, 2009)
English-Persian Glossary
- Sardar Bahador : سرداربهادر
- Prime Minister : نخست وزير رئيس الوزرا
- Ghasreshirin : قصر شيرين(Qasr-e-shirin)
- Sardar Asad : سردار اسعد عليقلي خان بختياري
- Sattar Khan : ستار خان(Sardar Melli)
- Bagher Khan : باقر خان(Salar Melli)
- Ahmad Shah : احمد شاه
- Azadolmolk : عضدالملک
- Azerbaijan : آذربايجان(Atropatene)
- Revolution : انقلاب
- Bakhtiari : بختياري(Bakhtiyari)
- Mojahedin : مجاهدين
- Reza Shah : رضا شاه(Sardar Sepah, Reza Gholdor) رضا خان
- Oligarchy : حكومت خواص
- Minister : وزير
- Russian : روسي
- Ottoman : عثماني(Osmani)
- Pahlavi : پهلوي(Pahlevi)
- Dynasty : دودمان ال، خاندان پادشاهان، سلسله
- Tehran : تهران(Teheran, Tahran) طهران
- Tabriz : تبريز(Tebriz)
- Majlis : مجلس(Majles)
- Gilan : گيلان
- Qajar : قاجار(Ghajar)
- Ahmad : احمد
- Shah : شاه پادشاه
- Four : چهار
- Iran : ايران
- Khan : خان
- Reza : رضا
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