Iran’s Yankee Hero
New York Times / CALAFI, DADPAY and MASHAYEKH
18-Apr-2009

the shah died in January 1907, and his son Muhammad Ali Shah was a Russophile and despot who opposed the Constitutional Revolution. His Cossack brigades, commanded by Russian officers, attacked and bombarded the Majlis. The constitution was suspended. Politicians, journalists and the leaders of the constitutionalists were hanged.

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