Sayyed Ali Akbar, a prominent molla (mullah)…

May 1891 CE

Sayyed Ali Akbar, a prominent molla (mullah) of Shiraz, is removed from the city by orders of Nasir al-Din Shah in May 1891 due to his preaching against the concession.

During his departure from Iran, Sayyed Ali Akbar meets with prominent pan-Islamist activist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, and at Akbar's request Afghani writes a letter to the leading Shia cleric Mirza Hasan Shirazi asking the mujtahid to "save and defend [the] country" from "this criminal who has offered the provinces of the land of Iran to auction among the Great Powers."

Though Shirazi will later send a personal telegram to the shah warning the leader about the pitfalls of giving concessions to foreigners, this personal appeal does nothing to put an end to the Régie.

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