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Sattar Khan, the great national commander of the Mashruteh History of Iran, who bravely and with his own efforts returned the Mashruteh Revolution to Iran. After the bombing of the Majlis by Lyakhov and government forces on the orders of Mohammad Ali Sultan, the Mashruteh Revolution was dismantled from all cities of Iran, but remained in Tabriz. Ayn al-Dawlah became the governor of Azerbaijan, and he defeated the Mashruteh Revolution in Tabriz.
But Mashruteh stood in the last "Amirkhiz" district. In the shadow of Sattar Khan's braveness, the Mashruteh Revolution once again returned to all districts of Tabriz, and then was established in all cities of Iran. The National Commander Sattar Khan and Salar Melli Baqer Khan brought at the end the victory. Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan not only revitalized the Mashruteh Revolution in Iran, but also prevented that thousands of the people of Iran be killed at hands of mullahs and Mohammad Ali Shah.
In November 1914 the Ottoman government started a war with Russia. The Ottomans were neighbors of Iran from Azerbaijan and Kurdistan to Khuzestan and the Persian Gulf, and fought throughout these borders with the Russian and British armies who were on Iranian soil. The Mujahedeen of Tabriz, who had sought refuge in Ottoman territory in 1911 after the war with the Russian army, were ready to fight agaoinst the Russians despite many of them were living in hardship. Other Mujahideen who lived in Tehran and other cities were shaken and joined the fighters with a heart full of grudges.
At this time, Sattar Khan held a meeting with Hashtroudi and others and talked about going to Azerbaijan and fighting the Russian army. Sattar Khan himself prepared to travel to Azerbaijan, even if his leg wound had not healed and he suffered. Sattar Khan, who made sacrifices for the liberation of Iran and misrooked by the people in the face of his bravery, and on the other hand in Tabriz, the Russian army looted his house and hanged his two nephews, at this time he was still thinking about Iran's defense. However, death did not give the great hero of Iran the opportunity and suddenly Sattar Khan died on November 16, 1914.
The Iranian government did not honor him as long he was alive, but they honored him after his death. On November 18, Sattar Khan was escorted by the army of gendarme and kazakhs, and Bakhtiari foot soldiers and bakhtiari students. Thousands of Azerbaijanis and Tehranians who walked behind Sattar Khan's coffin, took Sattar Khan to his grave. On the orders of the government, they held a glorious mourning ceremony for Sattar Khan.
Thus, the first leader of the Mashruteh Revolution, a man whose historical sacrifices in Tabriz and Azerbaijan in 1909 and 1909, and his eleven months of resistance against the army of Mohammad Ali Sultan, and especially after the dismantling of the Mashruteh, with only 20 fighters remained, reestablished Mashruteh Revolution to Iran.