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=== 1945-1976 EARLY INDEPENDENCE === | === 1945-1976 EARLY INDEPENDENCE === | ||
1945: During the midst of the Great War, the general-secretary of the underground pro-independence ''Arzani | 1945: During the midst of the Great War, the general-secretary of the underground pro-independence ''Arzani Imperial Renovation Party'', Dariush Yazdi, launches a coup d’etat against the Bābakid-Kiravian government, and deposes the Sirdar. Unsure whether the Muslim and Zoroastrian clergy could agree on a candidate for the throne, or would at all support the proclamation of a Republic, Yazdi forms a regency council. Leaving the position of ''Padishah'' nominally vacant, Yazdi wields monarchical power as the head of the regency council. | ||
1949: Collapse of Kiravian oversight over religious harmony in Arzanshahr leads to the first outbreak of sectarian violence in Arzanshahr. Previously ambivalent towards religious authority in Arzanshahr, the nominally Muslim Yazdi puts high-profile clerics of both Zoroastrianism and Islam on public trial, blaming them for the outbreak of civil war in his country. | 1949: Collapse of Kiravian oversight over religious harmony in Arzanshahr leads to the first outbreak of sectarian violence in Arzanshahr. Previously ambivalent towards religious authority in Arzanshahr, the nominally Muslim Yazdi puts high-profile clerics of both Zoroastrianism and Islam on public trial, blaming them for the outbreak of civil war in his country. | ||