Bakhtiari Take Isfahan for the Constitution · Vorud-e Bakhtiari-ha be Esfahan

Culture of origin: Bakhtiari · Historical

Holiday sources: Bakhtiari

After Mohammad Ali Shah shelled the parliament in 1908, constitutionalists rose against him across Iran. On 2 January 1909 Bakhtiari riders led by Zargham al-Saltaneh clashed with the government's forces in Isfahan, and on 5 January Samsam al-Saltaneh entered the city and took control of it. He did not take the title of governor, but called for elections and the forming of a provincial council. Isfahan became the Bakhtiari base: on 21 May 1909 their forces under Sardar Asad marched from it on Tehran, which they entered with the constitutionalists of Gilan in July.