Investigating the factors behind the fall and murder of Abdul Hossein Timurtash

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Seyed hamid Fakhrjaafari ¹ , omid sepehri rad ² , Abulhasan Mobayeyen ³

1 - Department of History, Bojnord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran
3 - Department of History, Bojnord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran

Received: 2023-11-11 Published : 2025-07-21

Keywords: Reza Shah Pahlavi, Court Minister, internal and external factors, hypotheses, Timurtash&#039, s murder.,

Abstract :

The history of Iran has witnessed the rise and fall political figures, including Abdolhossein Teymourtash,whose fall was one of the most significant and painful events of Fist Pahlavi era. After dominating the affairs, Reza khan decided to remove the elite politicians from power one of whom being Teyimourtash, the powerful Minister of Court, who was the second influential person in the court and had a big role in the establishment of Pahlavi dynasty. The reward of his endevour was responded by Shah's dismissal and finally murder of him. After so many years the murder of Teymourtash is still a mystery. The present study has tried to discover some of the mysteries of this historical event by investigating the books and firsthand sources and unveil some mysteries of domestic and foreign factors on Teymourtash's dismissal and murder. Contrary to most of researchers' viewpoints, only one factor cannot be considered as the cause of dismissal and murder of Teymourtash rather, a series of factors together has caused such an occurance including: jealousy of hypocrite eminent politicians such as Taghizadeh and Foroughi and others who became envious of him especially after witnessing the increasing power of the Minister of Court, the issue of bribery, slander, police file fabrication, accusation of espionage for Russians, the English conspiracy and Teymourtash's eye on east. It can be said that some of the factors are more significant than others but none of them can be ignored.