Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi ( fa, میرزا محمد فرخی یزدی; 1889 – October 18, 1939), also known as Taj osh-Sho'arā (تاج الشعرا), was an

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poet, journalist and senior politician of the Perisan Constitutional Revolution and the Reza Pahlavi era.

Biography

Born in

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and his father was Mohammad Ebrahim Yazdi, he started his preliminary education in

until the age of 16 when he was expelled from school for his poems against school teachers and principal. By the age of 16, he had already started writing poetry and gradually became active during the

Persian Constitutional Revolution The Persian Constitutional Revolution ( fa, مشروطیت, Mashrūtiyyat, or ''Enghelāb-e Mashrūteh''), also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911. The revolution led to the establishment of a par ...

and was imprisoned because of writing material in opposition to the infamous 1919's

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. In prison, he protested that “He whose only offense is love of the motherland / No creed would condemn to a dark cell…”. Farrokhi Yazdi composed a poem criticizing Zeygham al-Dawla Qashqa'i, the ruler of Yazd, and in response Zeigham al-Dawla ordered to sew his mouth with thread and needle and throw him in prison.FARROḴĪ YAZDĪ
According to one well known story, on the occasion of the Persian new year celebration in 1908, he recited a poem demanding an end to the injustices of Moḥammad-ʿAlī Shah. The poem so shocked the officials gathered at the assembly that Żayḡam al-Dawla Qašqāʾī, governor of Yazd, supposedly ordered Farroḵī to be imprisoned and his lips sewn together with thread and needle In 1921, he published the political newspaper ''Toufan'' (storm), winning fame for his poetry and constant attacks against Reza Pahlavi in his editorials. Farokhi Yazdi clink

Finally, in 1939, he was arrested, sentenced to prison at

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's Qasr prison. He was murdered by air injection under Dr.

Ahmad Ahmadi Ahmad Ahmadi (; 1885–1944), known as ''Pezeshk Ahmadi'' meaning Physician Ahmadi, was born in Mashhad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. He worked as a nurse at Qasr prison in Tehran, where he was ordered to kill political prisoners; he was later execut ...

. He has written a poem related to British politician,

Lord Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman ...

: :Lord Curzon has gotten angry :He is going to write a lament; :We don't exchange dignity with abasement :We don't obey embassy; :O' Curzon, abandon us :You can't exploit the country of Jamshid;

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* * * محمد فرخی یزدی 20th-century Iranian poets People from Yazd 1889 births 1939 deaths Iranian people who died in prison custody People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution Prisoners who died in Iranian detention Socialist Party (Iran) politicians Members of the 7th Iranian Majlis 19th-century Iranian poets 1939 murders in Iran {{Iran-writer-stub

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