Posted on 01/01/2021 2:05:39 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On or very near this date in 1912,* Russian troops in the northern Iran city of Tabriz publicly hanged eight men for resisting the tsarist occupation — including the city’s highest mullah, Sikat-ul-Islam.
Russia’s invasion of Tabriz the previous month brought a bloody curtain down on the Persian constitutional revolution of 1905-1911.
Persia shook in those years with a brave but doomed movement that was simultaneously constitutionalist and parliamentarian against the rotting Qajar dynasty, and nationalist against foreign intervention (specifically by Russia and Great Britain) — and thus was resisted by monarchists and foreign powers alike.
Constitutionalists had been able to march on Tehran in 1909 and chase the hated Shah Mohammad Ali into Russian exile, leaving the Qajar throne in the hands of his 11-year-old son.** But it was the imperial powers who maintained the true vigor of reaction. At this same time, Russia — which had throughout the 19th century periodically peeled Caucasus real estate away from the Qajars — occupied Tabriz in 1909 to force that capital of Iranian Azerbaijan to submit to a monarchist siege. Its troops were only ever withdrawn to the outskirts, poised for the next two years to intervene again against the precarious constitutionalist state at a moment’s notice.....
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No.
Happy New Year’s to you too, HB.
I, for one, never knew that Russia was so involved with the affairs of Iran a century ago and choose to be educated by reading a bit further in this, what is to you, a God-awful blog.
Can you show me where on the excerpt list it states that this blog cannot be posted in full?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
What the hell does it matter whether it is posted in full or not?
If someone wants to read more, they can click.
How hard is it to click?
How hard is it to post the whole thing?
If it is that important to you, you can take over posting this daily history post.
Besides, if I posted the full text, people would miss out on the illustrations and links to video.
Russia always eyed Iran to get a warm-water port.
Not if you knew how to do it correctly.
If it is that important to you, you can take over posting this daily history post.
It's totally not important to me.
The site is well done, with many references to click to. It would take a lot of needless work to move it all here.
Not everyone wants to submit to petty keyboard tyrants.
Few of us reading this care for the rants and demands of petty keyboard tyrants.
Nope. Two clicks and a copy/paste.
Few of us reading this care for the rants and demands of petty keyboard tyrants.
I think you need to write "petty keyboard tyrants" at least one more time.
Oh yeah.
Russia has not changed a bit. Come to think of it neither have the Brits.
They called it The Great Game and, as usual, managed to get a bunch of people killed while gaining almost nothing of any lasting worth.
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