📅 21 Febrüari 1921
A coup brought Reza Khan and Seyyed Zia to power. The Persian Cossack force’s Russian institutional origins formed part of the background to Iran’s changing state and foreign relations.
📅 21 Febrüari 1921
Cossack forces led by Reza Khan entered Tehran and helped install journalist Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabataba’i as prime minister. British officials had contacts with plotters and British policy shaped...
📅 12 Desèmber 1925
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...
