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Group: Central Sudanic peoples
People: John Talbot
Topic: Tobacco Protest
Location: Osimo Marche Italy

Tobacco Protest

Years: 1891 - 1891

The Persian Tobacco Protest is a Shi'a revolt in Iran against an 1890 tobacco concession granted by Nasir al-Din Shah of Persia to Great Britain, granting British control over growth, sale and export of tobacco.

The protest is held by Tehran merchants in solidarity with the clerics.

It climaxes in a widely obeyed December 1891 fatwa against tobacco use supposedly issued by Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)