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Show 85 Lack of Internal makers in the the country villages molested, Security. and The thieves on the roads, the trouble- cities, and the governmental officers throughout tortured and killed the For people. example: In Fars the rule of Prince Shu "au-s -Saltana (who, having explosion of popular discontent, had been reappointed to this important government in September, 1904) weighed heavily on the people. At Mashhad Asafu'd Dawla's rule was equally oppressive, and he had further outraged public opinion by ordering his soldiers to fire on a crowd of people 'who, protesting against his exactions, had taken refuge in the holy been driven out by an precincts of the Shrine of Imam Riza. Saltana had inflicted the bastinado of that town, At Kirman Zafaru's on one of the Hajji Mirza Muhammad Riza. At principal [clergy] Qazwin the Wazir i-Akram had treated another [clergy] in like manner; and finally eight respected merchants of Tehran had been bastinadoed by the Governor, Ala'u'd-Dawla, on the charge of putting up the price of sugar (Browne, 1910a:112). some seven or Also, in Russia. thousand Persian merchants and laborers some The Persian government took no were action in the matter killed (Kasravi, 1961:146). Again, demands such precipitating explanation and events "may Signalize 'failure' which a assignment of responsibility" (Smelser, 1962: 251). Famine. no of food reserves, a an agricultural country, like Iran, famine usually killed" directly During the Revolution famine people. economic In deprivation factor may serve and death of to "fntroduce a a was one or where there indirectly, thousands of the causes of the substantial number of people. sharp new deprivation generally difficult conditions" (Smelser, 1962:250). were Such in the midst of a |
