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| | History of Iran: Mirza Taqi Khan, Amir Kabir |
 | | The instruments of central administration were overhauled, and the Amir assumed responsibility for all areas of the bureaucracy. |
 | | With a firm, doubtless, strong, and steady will, Amir Kabir continued his reformations and exploitations, and all alone, resisted the most selfish, tyrannous and despotic king of the Qajar Dynasty along with his corrupt relatives, courtiers, and flatterers, among whom some had been excluded from the government. |
 | | They regarded the Amir as a social upstart and a threat to their interests, and they formed a coalition against him, in which the queen mother was active. |
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