Following Muhammad Shah’s death, Nasir al-Din Shah became ruler. His long reign intensified state centralization and foreign borrowing and concessions, while court officials, provincial communities,...
Constitutionalist forces from Tabriz, Gilan, and the Bakhtiari region entered Tehran. Mohammad Ali Shah was deposed and his young son Ahmad Shah succeeded him; constitutional government was...
The Majlis voted to depose the Qajar dynasty and transfer provisional governing powers to Reza Khan pending a constituent assembly. Reza Khan was crowned Reza Shah in 1926. Parliamentary procedure...
