Background
Mirza Agha Khan was born Nasrollah Nuri, son of Mirza Assadollah Khan Nuri, around 1807.
Mirza Agha Khan was born Nasrollah Nuri, son of Mirza Assadollah Khan Nuri, around 1807.
He has been accused of assisting the Queen Mother, Mahd-Oliya, to remove Mirza Taqi Khan Amir Kabir from chancellorship in 1851. The diaries of a French count and the Crown Prince, however, refute this. Sources will be cited shortly.
Gossip and rumour spread by those who tried to implicate him in the overthrow of Mirza Taqi Khan and tried successfully to link him in the minds of Iranians to having contacts with the English colonial administration in India and Iran, leading to his Anglophile reputation.
He died on 12 Shawwal 1281 Animal Husbandry = March 10, 1865.
His father was among the first people to join the armies of the conquering Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar Dynasty. He was an accomplished scholar and found himself raised through the ranks of the Civil Service to that of Premier or Grand Vazier (equivalent of the modern post of Prime Minister) and part of the king"s privy council.
