Abdol Majid Mirza

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Abdol Majid Mirza Eyn-ed-Dowleh (Persian: عبدالمجیدمیرزا عین‌الدوله; 1845 – 2 November 1927), commonly referred to by his title Eyn od-Dowleh, was one of the major leaders of the Minor Tyranny. He led the royalist forces against the constitutionalists in the Siege of Tabriz (1908–1909), during which he deliberately inflicted a famine that led to the deaths of an estimated 100,000 civilians. A Qajar prince, Eyn-ed-Dowleh served as the 20th and last grand vizier of Iran from 1904 till 1906 and then as the 10th prime minister of Iran in 1915 and from 1917 till 1918. Eyn-ed-Dowleh was a staunch conservative and a supporter of absolute monarchy. He was furthermore anti-clerical, anti-liberal and an opposer of Persian Constitutionalism.

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