Tobacco Protest

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The Tobacco Protest was a pivotal 1891–1892 popular movement in Iran, led by merchants, clerics, and the public against a foreign tobacco concession, that marked an early assertion of national and constitutional resistance to Qajar rule and imperial influence.

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