Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh
Prime minister of Iran
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Place of Birth: Qazvin, Qazvin Province, Iran
About Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh
- Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh Sepahsalar (Persian: ????? ???? ??? ?????????? ?????????) or simply Mirza Hosein Sepahsalar (Persian: ????? ???? ?????????) (1828–1881) was the prime minister of Iran (Persia) during the Qajar dynasty under king Naser od-Din Shah Qajar between 1871 and 1873. After a successful career in the Iranian foreign service, serving in Tiflis, Mirza Hosein Khan was made ambassador to Istanbul during the great Ottoman reform period after 1856.
- He seems also to have been influenced by at least two reformist thinkers: Fatali Akhundov, whom he got to know well in Tiflis, and Mirza Malkam Khan, whom he met in Istanbul. On becoming prime minister, he persuaded the Shah to grant a concession for railroad construction—the Reuter concession—and other commercial development projects to Baron de Reuter.
- Opposition from bureaucratic factions and clerical leaders, however, forced the Shah to dismiss his prime minister and cancel the concession.
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