Mohammad Ali Shah

The new Shah had a lot of things said behind his back. First that he is not the son of his father, which is a pretty big accusation, but considering his mothers behaviour, who knows!!! The other thing was that he was too much of and "absolutist" to be trusted with the throne of "constitutional monarchy". But the leaders of the revolution were pretty optimistic, so they brought the new king and put his hand on the Qoran and made him promise not to betray the "constitution". He did, but apparently his hand was from the wood, because after a while, he got the itch of getting rid of all these commoners.

Mohammad Ali Shah could not trust any of his Iranian courtians to do the job form him, so he look for the help from his northern allies, Russians. A small group of Kaczak soldiers, created by the Russians, were available in Iran. They were the result of Nasser Al-Din Shah's desire to have a "Russian" military, and also an advantage given to Ruissia to make them happy after all of the advantages given to the English. Leader of the Kaczaks, Colonel Liyakhov, was an absolutist, so that made the problem easy.

After escaping a murder conspiracy, Mohammad Ali Shah ordered Liyakhov to bombard the Parliament. Liyakhov killed many of the MPs, and Mohammad Ali Shah's guards captured the rest. Their leaders, people like Malek ol-Motekalemmin or Soor-e Esrafil, who were the major forces, were hanged, and the rest were sent to exile.

Mohammad Ali Shah started the short lived "absolutist" period this way. The leaders of the opposition who escaped the death, began planning for re-establishing the old way. Helped by the demonstrations inside the country and by the support given from the religious leaders, revolution started again.

Few incidents lead to the dethrownment of Mohammad Ali Shah. One was the strike of the "Bazaar" merchants against the taxes and punishments, and the other one was the great sit-in in the British Embassy in Tehran, where more than a 100 thousand people demonstrated against the governament. Also military like oppositions from all sides of the country started moving toward the capital. Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan from Azerbaijan, Sepahsallar From the North, and Sardar-Asad from the south. These forces met each other behind the gates of Tehran, and "conquered" the capital together.

Mohammad Ali Shah had to resign. He was sent to exile first to Odessa and then to Itally, where he died around 15 years later. He tried several more times to recapture his lost thrown, but he never succeeded.