Analyzing the role of the Zargandeh Committee in the changes of Iran's political system

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of History, Civilization and Islamic Revolution, Faculty of Education and Islamic Thought, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Graduate of Qom Seminary and PhD in Islamic Revolution Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
During the last two centuries, Iran, despite its rich resources, being on the way to East Asia and the open waters of South and Africa, had attracted the greed of the superpowers, and the 1919 Wastouq-ud-Dawlah agreement, which provided the maximum interests of the British and British colonial governments and After the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and the reduction of the tsar's interference in Iran, it was considered one of the ways of its colonization, which was the influence of the knowledgeable clergy, along with the masses of people and true benefactorsThe nation, like Martyr Ayatollah Modares and his enlightened actions, caused the annulment of this humiliating and ominous agreement. However, the colonialism of the old British, angrily, carried out the colonial action and the second act of its plan with the help of Westernist and Freemason agents in Iran and its 1999 coup. replaced the 1919 contract. The preparations for such a plan were made with a secret committee called the Iron Committee or the Zargandeh Committee. According to this analysis of the activities of the committee members,It gives us important historical information on the recruitment of elites to carry out the pre-planned purposes of foreigners in Iran, indicating that its members have played an essential role in the political developments of their time in the Iranian political system; in addition to the fact that the origin And its programs have reached England completely and in terms of organizations. In fact, this committee has been the implementer of the Iranian part of the puzzle of British policies in the transfer of power.

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