Mirza Jahangir Khan Souresrafil (killed savagely by Liakhov)
Ironically, the revolt did not die and instead turned into an armed struggle. Starting in Tabriz. The leaders of this struggle were the famous Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan. They started a homegrown uprising and took over the city.
Sattar Khan acquired a lot of guns and trained a lot of people. Muhammad Ali Shah sent his uncle with the Cossack brigade to fight him. During the first days of battle Sattar Khan lost badly. The number of his soldiers had dwindled to a few people. The commander of the Cossack brigade, noticing Sattar Khan's impending loss, sent a few soldiers with a white flag and told Sattar Khan that he should just take the white flag and go wherever he wanted to, in peace. Sattar Khan replied "This flag is the flag of freedom and I want all people of the world to be under it. I am not going to surrender, you go back to your commander and make sure that you do everything thing that you can to win." Then he went back to the city and noticed that most houses had put white flags on their doors. He took his sword and broke the flag poles and put the men of the city to shame, he yelled at them saying it would more manly if they were wearing burkas rather than putting a white flag on the doors. The people of Tabriz who are famous for their pride and honor couldn't take it any more and came out to fight. The odds against him in the battles were astonishing. Sattar Khan was facing overwhelming military superiority. However, he won every battle until the government forces were totally defeated and sent back to Tehran. Sattar khan's success was followed by triumphs of Bakhtiaris from the mountains of central Iran.
They used the element of surprise and moved through the lines of the government forces. Thus the 3000 strong, well-equipped forces of Bakhtiari entered the capital. Following bloody fights in the streets and the Bazaar District, once again the national forces triumphed, and the Cossack brigade was surrounded and forced into surrender.
The Jewish Constitutionalist
Fearing for his life, Mohammad shah and a number of his supporters, under armed escort of Russian soldiers, took miserable asylum in Russian Embassy. On this very day, the National Consultative Assembly (Majlis) held an emergency session and deposed Mohammad Ali Shah as a monarch, and named his 13 year old son, Ahmad Mirza as his successor. Mohammad Ali Shah left the Russian Embassy and went into exile in Russia.
Ayatollah Noori
Ayatollah Noori was the only one to be hanged after the revolution, guilty of siding with the dictator. He was Ayatollah Khomeini's mentor!!!!!
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