EVENT INFORMATION

21
Febrüari
1921

Coup brings Reza Khan and Seyyed Zia to power

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📅 21 Febrüari 1921 📍 Iran

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 the setting, but the degree of British direction is contested; Iranian military and political calculations also mattered.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Reza Khan

Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabataba’i

Ahmad Shah Qajar

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Persian Cossack Brigade

Qajar government

United Kingdom