Persia's Naser al-Din Shah was one of Iran's first photographers.

1873

He set up a studio in the Golestan Palace and was photographed hundreds of times, and in 1873 he became the first modern Iranian monarch to visit Europe, keeping a travel diary.

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• The Persian Tobacco Protest1891–1892 · Tehran. Naser al-Din Shah granted a Briton a monopoly on all Iranian tobacco. In 1891 the cleric Shirazi issued a fatwa against tobacco, and a country that smoked even in mosques stopped; even the women of the shah's harem reportedly quit. The concession was cancelled in January 1892.

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