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Mirza Reza Kermani

1854–1896 · 19th century

Mirza Reza Kermani was an Iranian radical, a follower of the pan-Islamist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who shot dead Naser al-Din Shah at the shrine of Shah Abdol-Azim near Tehran on 1 May 1896, on the eve of the shah's jubilee. He had earlier been imprisoned and tortured for his political activity, and was publicly hanged in Tehran in August 1896.

Mirza Reza Kermani
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