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Ali Mardan Khan Bakhtiari

d. 1754 · 18th century

Ali Mardan Khan Bakhtiari was a chief of the Bakhtiari tribe who, after the fall of the Afsharids, seized Isfahan in 1750 and with Karim Khan Zand installed the young Safavid prince Ismail III as a puppet shah. The partnership soon broke down, Karim Khan defeated him, and Ali Mardan Khan was killed in 1754, leaving Karim Khan the leading power in western Iran.

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