The coup d'etat in Persia (1921)

The coup d'etat on February 21, 1921 was a successful coup in Persia against the government of Prime Minister Fatollah Khan Akbar. The coup occurred on the night of February 20-21, 1921. The coup was led by Ziyaeddin Tabatabai and Reza Khan (the future Shah Reza Pahlavi , who led the soldiers of the former Persian Cossack Division ^[1] . Persian gendarmerie officers Masood Keihen Akhaymay and Kasem Khan Aikhma-caiadmi directly participated in it. The coup was declared continuing, despite the past 15 years since the Constitutional Revolution , the dominance of oligarchs who continued to plunder national wealth and impeded the implementation of reforms ^[2] .

The coup led to the dismissal of Prime Minister Akbar and the adoption by Ahmed Shah Kajar of a new government led by Ziyaeddin Tabatabai. Reza Khan became the commander of the reconstituted Cossack brigade (with the rank of Sardar Sepah), Masoud Keyhen took the post of Minister of War, Mahmoud Jam - Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Kazet Khan - the military governor of Tehran. Although the coup ended with the victory of the rebels, pZiyaeddin Tabatabai remained in his post for only 100 days. After his resignation as Prime Minister, he was succeeded by Ahmad Kawam . The important outcomes of the coup were the signing of the Soviet-Iranian Friendship Treaty on February 26, 1921 ^[3] , the wave of arrests of large landowners and provincial officials who did not accept the new government (after the fall of the Tabatabai government, they were all released), as well as the strengthening of the authority of Reza Khan.