معین الدین محرابی

Ali Akbar Dabirsohrabi (Dabir al-soltan) was a deputy of the first National Parliament from Tehran, in the eighth and ninth periods he was the MP from Garus, and in the tenth and eleventh periods from Ghuchan. He was elected as a MP in the first legislative period of Persian National Parliament, but he resigned later. Between the VIII and the XI Parliament, he could be considered a silent representative, because there is not even one registered comment expressed by the above mentioned deputy in this time. Dabir al-soltan was a rich man and in his later years he donated a number of villages that had in Ghuchan to the holy shrine of Imam Reza (Astan-e Qods-e Razavi).

This paper aims to offer an account of political and social activities of Sayyid Abdolrahim Kashani, revolutionist in the Constitutional Revolution, by narrating historical events recorded in documents and resources. Kashani was a stamp and postcard merchant and a revolutionist. In 1907 he launched a newspaper called A’ineyeh Gheybnama (The invisible-reflecting mirror). Another work published by him was The Collection of Stamps Issued by Iran’s Post, a book published in 1953, which is the oldest book presenting stamps issued in Iran. He was a proponent of Reza Khan in his attempts for the throne, and was a member of the First Constituent Assembly, which formed in 1925 to vote for the overthrow of Qajar dynasty and foundation of Pahlavi. As a proponent of Reza Shah’s rule, he then stood as a candidate for the 7th National Consultative Assembly elections but failed to win enough votes to be selected as one of the twelve representatives from Tehran. However, since the City Police protected proponents of Reza Shah, his votes were high and when three representatives resigned a short while later, he was selected as a representative to the 7th Assembly. He managed to win enough votes to be a member of the 8th Assembly, too, but he passed away within a few months from the Assembly’s lifetime. Although not effective in the 7th and 8th Assemblies, he was influential in the Constitutional Revolution and the related events.

Yadollah Dehestani represented Shahriar and Savojbolagh in the 5th to the 14th Majlis of Iran. Unlike his counterparts in the 5th and 6th Majlis, Qasem Khan Sour-e Esrafil and Muhammad Sadeq Tabataba’I who did nothing to resolve the problems plaguing Shahriar and Savojbolagh, Dehestani attracted the attention of legislators to these problems and put forward the proposals to drain the marshes to battle malaria and establish schools to battle illiteracy.From the 7th Majlis onwards, Dehestani, however, restricted his attempts to write, enact, and amend the legislation.