Mohammad Khiabani

Mohammad Khiabani
Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni. In the caption one reads: "Āghā Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni, the leader of the Freedom Fighters of Azarbaijan who was martyred".

Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni (sometimes spelled Khiyabani), also known as Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni Tabrizi (1880–1920), was an Iranian cleric, political leader, and representative to the parliament.

He was born in Khameneh, near Tabriz to Haji Abdolhamid from Khameneh, a merchant. He became active during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and was a prominent dissident against foreign colonialism, which subsequently led to his sending into exile by the Ottomans in 1918.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Khiabani re-established the Democrat Party of Tabriz after being banned for five years, and published the Tajaddod newspaper, the official organ of the party, edited by his supporter Taqi Rafat. Later, in a protest to the 1919 Treaty between Persia and the United Kingdom, which exclusively transferred the rights of deciding about all military, financial, and customs affairs of Persia to the British, he revolted and took Tabriz and surrounding areas, calling it Azadistan ("land of liberty"); he was not, however, a separatist.[1] After the fall of Vosough od-Dowleh, the then prime minister, the new prime minister sent Mokhber os-Saltaneh to Tabriz, giving him full authority, and he crushed and killed Khiabani in the late summer of 1920 (Mokhber os-Saltaneh claimed that Khiabani had committed suicide).

There is a biography by Abdolhossein Nahidi-Azar.

References

  1. ^ Cosroe Chaqueri, The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), p. 465.

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