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Show 65 southern Iran under English control. serious loss of respect and obedience from its During the Qajar dynasty, dis puts with neighboring Iran diminishing power of the Persian those which had areas belonged regain what had been lost. acceptance of problem to Iran in the 'Iran's as a weak state. and Iran continued as an past, but acknowledgment The kings tried to were The boundary recover unable to of its losses and its necessarily mean recognition ' still 'Shahanshah, were 'Empire'. in the result of the was Qajar kings Empire. a people (Kermani, 1945). constantly involved its diminished frontiers did not of its position kings, was This countries. government suffered The Persian king of empire had died, but the myth had survived" (Ramazani, 1966:62). Not or only tribes from cities, killing of this year were there neighboring or and domestic wars, but at times countries attacked the Persian capturing the inhabitants. For neighboring in the northern sector of wounded four or Persian territory, some to people or "In November cross the especially Quchan Iran) where they killed five more, and carried off villages example, [1902] the Turkmans (a Russian tribe) began border and harass the (a city foreign some dozen peasants, threescore persons as captives" (Browne, 1910a:111). In were Backou, in RUSSia, some thousand Persian laborers and merchants killed; the government of Iran did to the Russian not even government (Kasravi, 1961:146). make an official protest |
