Colonel Pesian
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Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian ( - October , 1921) (also Colonel Pesian or Pesyan), born in Tabriz, was a popular military leader of Iran.
Commander of the Gendarmerie of Khorasan province, he became head of the provincial autonomous government of Khorasan in 1921. His attempt was crushed by Reza Pahlavi and he was later assassinated that same year. Reza Shah ordered that he should be beheaded and his head was brought to Tehran to prove that he had been killed. After the revolution Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Pessian was declared the first matyr of the revolution. He remains an Iranian hero.
[edit] References
- Qiyam-e Kolonel Mohammad Taqi Khan-e Pesyan dar Khorasan (Uprising of Colonel Mohammad Taqi Khan Pesyan in Khurasan), A.Azari, Tehran, Safialishah, 1989
[edit] See also
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
- Mohammad Hosein Airom
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash
- Sar Lashgar Buzarjomehri
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi
- Bahram Aryana
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