https://freerepublic.com/tag/pettykeyboardtyrants/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:05:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3920701/posts 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... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3920701/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:05:39 GMT