ON IRAN AND IRANIANS
Under the auspices of Mokhtar Hadidi
Preface and Study: Farhad Rostami
First Edition: 2011
Print run: 2000 volumes
Pages: 123
Price: 20,000 tomans
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“ We can call his time the period of contracts. Unlike Mirza Agha Khan Noori and Sepahsalar, he was attached to neither of the two great powers; he proceeded to each one as circumstances might allow. Although he liked to be known as a skilful player in political chess; but someone else often was the winner unless the rival, for some motive, showed off he had lost the play. The first concession was related with British Embassy; concessions of navigation and establishing the Royal Bank. This time, in order to quiet Russians, he gave them the concession of…”