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Original photograph of Constitutionalists occupying the Ottoman Embassy during the Persian Revolution.
Rare photograph from the Persian Constitutional Revolution
A remarkable group portrait of Constitutionalists, massed together in the Ottoman Embassy during the final year of the Persian Revolution.
The Ottoman Embassy in Tehran became a familiar refuge throughout the Constitutional movement’s struggle to wrest power from the Shah. Whenever the Shah used force to crack down on public protest, usually in the form of the well-trained Cossack Brigade, it was one of the few safe places for Constitutionalists to hide and regather.
We have encountered this image before, reproduced in Iranian books on the Revolution, but never as an original print. It is a slightly cropped version of the complete photograph, with excellent tones and detail.
