British intelligence officer, discovered Reza khan for his purpose
The general wrote a nice letter of recommendation for Reza Khan
They found what they were looking for. The Persian Cossack Brigade was in bad shape, their Russian officers were monarchist and the tsar was dead. They needed new leadership among their Iranian generals and they found a Persian Cossack who was unusually tall, physically strong, extremely intelligent, nationalistic, competent, ambitious, gutsy, feisty, intimidating, frugal, illiterate, but quick a learner and somewhat paranoid. He had shown guts and leadership in many battles and hated the Russian Officers. His name was Reza Khan his friends called him Reza khan the Maxim.
Reza Khan's First job as a Persian Cossack - guarding the Dutch embassy.
The picture explains colonialism well. Proud Iranian soldier in Russian Army clothes, protecting the Dutch embassy (hey boy), Fat foreigner on a horse imitating Napoleon.
I wonder who would clean the horse dump in the bottom of the picture.
Mozafareldin Shah bought twenty of these machine guns in one his royal tours to Paris's brothels. Reza khan was crew chief of one of them.
When Ironside and Reporter agreed on him, he had a few nights of briefing and he was given the green light to take the 2500 men Cossack brigade to Tehran. Accompanied by an Iranian reporter who loved the British (Seyyed Zeya), he clothed, fed, and paid his comrades and together they conquered Tehran and took over the government. He kept his word to the British and never bothered the king. He just gradually escorted him out of the country and took his job.
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