Mohammad Khiabani
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Mohammad Khiabani | |
|---|---|
Iranian Parliament | |
| In office 6 December 1914 – 13 November 1915 | |
| Constituency | Tabriz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1879 Khameneh, Persia |
| Died | 1920 (aged 40–41) Tabriz, Persia |
| Political party | Democrat Party |
Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni (
parliament
.
He was born in
Khameneh, a merchant.[1] He became active during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and was a prominent dissident against foreign colonialism, which subsequently led to him being sent into exile by the Ottomans
in 1918.
After the
Vosough od-Dowleh, the then prime minister, the new prime minister sent Mehdi Qoli Hedayat to Tabriz, giving him full authority, and he crushed and killed Khiabani in the late summer of 1920 (Hedayat claimed that Khiabani had committed suicide
).
References
- ^ "Who is Sheikh Mohammad Khiabani?". portal.anhar.ir. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ N. Parvin, Encyclopaedia Iranica [1]
- ^ Cosroe Chaqueri, The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920–1921: Birth of the Trauma (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), p. 465.
- ^ Parvīn, N. (2011). "ĀZĀDĪSTĀN". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 2. p. 177.
The first issue of the magazine was brought out on 15 Jawzā 1299/5 June 1920, one month after the historic province had been renamed "Āzādīstān" (Land of freedom) by Ḵīābānī and his followers as a gesture of protest against the giving of the name "Azerbaijan" to the part of Caucasia centered on Bākū.
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