On 25 April is not only the anniversary of the entry into Milan ‘armed’ partisan and so-called ‘liberation’, there is another anniversary that falls right on this date.
On April 25, 1926, eighty-five years ago, the imperial crown was placed on the head of the Persian Reza Khan, who from that day became Reza Shah Pahlavi, ruler of Persia until his deposition on 16 September 1941.
Reza Khan had made a career in the army Persian Cossack Brigade, founded under the Tsar. In February 1921, together with the journalist Seyyed Zyadeddin Tabatabai, after his prime minister, under the command of his brigade, made a coup, marched to Tehran and took it without finding any resistance, setting up his government.
From now assumed the role of commander of the army and soon after that of minister of war.
