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Show 82 Events Accounting For Precipitating Factors The Tobacco Concession. foreign in interference and regard governmental to the Tobacco Concession cession, established The The first important movement in 1890, concess ionai re was was concessions to between the king and , Feuvsier says, "How could understand the not without advantages an they [the Persian to being obliged be people] company. years. to brought The Persians could buy from to con production, period of fifty a of the Tobacco Concession? resistance, submit This English full control over-the sale and exportation of all tobacco in Persia for As Dr foreigners occurred (Mal ekzadeh, 1961:126). thereby granted against the English the tobacco which they themselves grow and gather in" (The Times, 1891), The They clergy, Asnaf tore down the and peasants were against such threatening foreigners with rescinded. The most important member of the king that this and people ordering declaring the monopoly of complete longer either in the the women's city, or shops in the Shah's contrary ... of a tobacco, (Mostofi, 1962:470). and no one [king's] entourage, apartments" (The Times, 1891). use , to the He also wrote abandonment of the any article unlawful the tobacco merchants have closed their was clergy, Hasan-I-Shtrazt (Povolovich, 1950:35). the replaced them death unless the concession concession to Christians was Koran and the- spirit of Islam letter to the concession. of the tobacco corporation and placards with notices wrote to the a smokes any or even in All |
