Abolqasem Naser al Molk

Abolqasem Naser al Molk, 1911

Abolqasem Naser al Molk ( Persian ابو القاسم ناصر الملك, DMG Abū l-Qāsim Nāṣir al-Mulk ; born 1863 ; died 1927 ) was Prime Minister and Regent of Iran .

Life

Abolqasem Naser al Molk came from a family in western Iran. His grandfather Mahmoud Khan Naser al Molk belonged to the class of chiefs of the Qaragozlou tribe. He held high positions at the court of Naser al-Din Shah and in 1878 accompanied Naer al-Din Shah on his second trip to Europe in the role of foreign minister. The grandfather took his grandson Abolqasem with him on this trip. The young Abolqasem stayed in England and attended the renowned Oxford Balliol College there from 1879 to 1882 . His classmates included Edward Gray , who later became the British Foreign Secretary, and Cecil Spring-Rice , who later became the British Ambassador to Tehran and Washington.

After returning to Iran, he became an interpreter for Naser al-Din Shah. After the death of his grandfather, he inherited his title "Naser al Molk". He was first finance minister, then governor and, during the constitutional revolution during the reign of Mohammed Ali Shah in 1907, prime minister for a short time. However, under pressure from some parliamentarians, Naser al Molk resigned his post as prime minister. Since he failed to ask Mohammed Ali Shah's permission before resigning, the latter had him arrested without further ado. Naser al Molk was only released from prison after intervention by the British ambassador. Seeing his life threatened, Naser al Molk immediately fled to England.

Naser al Molk did not return to Iran until after the overthrow of Mohammed Ali Shah in the summer of 1909. Ali Reza Khan Azod al Molk was installed as regent for the underage Ahmad Shah , while Naser al Molk took over the office of Prime Minister. After the death of Ali Reza Azod al Molk, who was over eighty, Abolqasem Naser al Molk became regent for Ahmad Shah. The majority of MPs would have preferred Hassan Mostofi as regent, but then came to terms with Naser al Molk. He held the office until Ahmad Shah came of age in 1914. In 1915 Naser al Molk left Iran and lived in England until his death. In 1919 he made another political appearance as advisor to Lord Curzon on the drafting of the Anglo-Iranian Treaty of 1919. Abolqasem Naser al Molk died in 1927 at the age of 64.

literature

• Cyrus Ghani: Iran and the rise of Reza Shah. From Qajar collapse to Pahlavi rule . IB Tauris, London et al. 1998, ISBN 1-86064-258-6 , p. 11.