Triumph of Tehran · Fath-e Tehran

Culture of origin: Bakhtiari · Historical

Holiday sources: Bakhtiari · Gilak · Iran · Lur

After Mohammad Ali Shah shelled the parliament in 1908, constitutionalists rose in Tabriz, Rasht and Isfahan. Bakhtiari forces led by Sardar Asad marched from Isfahan and joined the Gilan army near Tehran, while Sardar Maryam Bakhtiari and a band of Bakhtiari fighters slipped into the city to hold positions around the parliament. They entered Tehran on 13 July 1909; the Shah fled to the Russian legation and was deposed. It was the first time an Iranian tribe fought for the Constitution.