The famous “Leading Personalities” files of the British Foreign Office described Seyyed Zia as:”a man of outstanding singles of purpose and courage. Personally attractive, religious without being fanatical or obscurantist…appointed prime minister with full powers by Ahmad Shah on the 1st of March 1921 and affected numerous arrests. His reforms were too radical for the country and the time, and he fell from power in June….It is no exaggeration to say that rallied the Anti-Tudeh forces in Persian and thus made it possible to resist intensive Soviet Pressure when it came.