AHMAD SHAH QAJAR

'Ahmad Shah Qajar' (احمد شاه قاجار in Persian) ‎(January 21, 1898 - 21 February, 1930) was Shah of Iran from July 16, 1909, to October 31, 1925 and the last of the Qajar dynasty.

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Reign

Exile

See also

References

External links

Reign

Ahmad acceded to the Peacock Throne on July 16, 1909, following the overthrow of his father and predecessor, Mohammad Ali Shah, who had attempted to reverse earlier constitutional restrictions on royal power. He was, however, an ineffective ruler who was faced with internal unrest and foreign intrusions, particularly by the British and Russian Empires. In 1917, Britain used Iran as the springboard for an attack into Russia in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Exile

Ahmad Shah was pushed aside in a military coup in 1921 by Reza Pahlavi and went into exile with his family in 1923. He was formally deposed on October 31, 1925, when Reza Pahlavi was proclaimed Shah by the Founders Assembly.
He died in 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, though the dynasty was continued by his brother, the former crown prince Mohammad Hassan Mirza.
He refused to exceed his power limits as a constitutional monarch in order to save his dynasty. Moreover, he refused help from the Ottoman Sultanto restore him to the throne as he saw the offer as foreign interference in internal affairs of Persia^[1].

See also

★ Qajar dynasty

References

1. [1] Salam Iran - ''Iran's History in brief''

External links

★ History of Iran: Qajar Dynasty

★ A postage stamp with his image

★ Listing of known Portraits and Pictures

★ A sympathetic profile of him

★ A genealogy and history of Qajar rulers

★ List of marriages and descedants

★ Coins of Ahmad Shah era