Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2019
The 1896 attack on Nāser od-Din Shāh was not, as we have seen, a random or isolated act. It was symptomatic of the intensifying tensions between arbitrary rule and the deep social aspirations for justice and political leverage. It was not a change of monarch that could put an end to this, nor even action by certain leaders who were more concerned about the social malaise. What was needed was structural reform. To trigger the process, external events came to the aid of the reformers.
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