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Show 115 the help of Russia, to destroy the Constitution and the revolutionaries. that there was no desire for a The political change king wrote a purpose for letter to the prime minister saying leaving the of weather (Ramazani, 1966). of armed revolutionaries rallied around the of the Constitution Assembly, along with capital; it was Assembly to protect the symbol (Kasravi, 1961:581). accompanied the king's troops tionaries feared little or no a his Nevertheless, thousands On June 7, 1908, Tehran awoketo the sound of the Russian which only Russian invasion, significant resistance. bombed while the representatives into the city. they offered As were a artillery Because the revoluthe Russian troops result, the Assembly itself inside. was By nightfall the king controlled Tehran. Colonel Liakhoff, issued the following proclamation the following day: Agreeably to the Command of His Royal and Imperial Majesty (may our lives be his sacrifice!) and for the assurance of public security and the due enforcement of the laws regulating the internal order of the city of Tehran, I announce for the information of the public the matters hereinafter mentioned,. together with the necessary general regulations which have been enacted. (1) The regulation of all the affairs and dispositions of the Capital is entrusted to the Officers and Cossacks of His Imperial Majesty's Brigade, the Gendarmerie, the regiments of Khalaj and Zarand, and the Pollee of the Department of Public Security. (2) Any transgressing the· commands of the Law failing in obedience thereto, will be prose punished with the utmost rigour. Persons suffering person hereinset forth, cuted and or |
