Nasereddin Shah Imperial Palace in Shahrestanak

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The Shah’s sybaritic taste was underwritten by the sale of Persian national assets to foreign investors whose proceeds he would pocket. Of his numerous trade agreements, the most unpopular was the Shah’s attempt to sell Persia’s tobacco concession in 1890 that led to a national boycott of tobacco and a fatwah issued by Ayatolla Mirza Hassan.

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