The Minor Tyranny was a roughly one year long period in Iranian history lasting from the bombardment of the Iranian parliament by the forces of Mohammad Ali Shah on 23 June 1908 to the capture of Tehran by the revolutionary forces on 13 July 1909. This period was marked by the executions and expulsion of many journalists and constitutionalists as an era of absolutism returned to the country.
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, who ascended the throne in January 1907, was an opponent of the constitutional revolution from its inception.
Members of the first Iranian parliament, in front of the parliament building.
The Parliament building after bombardment.
A group of arrested constitutionalists in Baghshah.
1908 bombardment of the Majlis
The 1908 bombardment of the Majlis of Iran took place on 23 June 1908 in Tehran, during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, when the Persian Cossack forces, commanded by Vladimir Liakhov and other Russian officers, bombarded and suppressed the Iranian parliament, the Majlis.
A number of constitutionalists arrested in the Shah Garden.
Parliament of Tehran - image of 1906
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, who was Shah of Iran at time of 1908 Tehran bombardment and wanted to subdue Majlis.
The Majlis building after the bombardment by the Cossack Brigade under the command of Colonel Liakhov, 1908
