Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (Persian: محمدعلی شاه قاجار) (1872 - 1925) was the shah of Iran from January 8, 1907 to July 16, 1909. He was against the constitution that was ratified during the reign of his father, Mozzafar-al-Din Shah. He dissolved the Assembly and was supported by Russia. However, he abdicated following a new constitutional revolution and he was remembered as a symbol of dictatorship.
He fled to Russia and his attempts to regain the throne did not result in success. His son and successor, Ahmad Shah Qajar was the last ruler in the Qajar dynasty.
Agha Mohammad was assassinated in 1797 in the Azerbaijani town of Shusha (in Karabakh) and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath AliShah Qajar.
Mozaffar-e-din Shah's son MohammadAliShah (reigned 1907-09), and, with the aid of Russia, attempted to rescind the constitution and abolish parliamentary government.
Soltan Ahmad Shah, was born 21 January 1898 in Tabriz, and succeeded to the throne at age 11.
Under Fath AliShah, Iran went to war against Russia, which was expanding from the north into the Caucasus Mountains, an area of historic Iranian interest and influence.
In 1961 the shah dissolved the Majlis, instructing the prime minister to rule by decree until new elections were held.
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had been speaker of the Majlis from 1980 to 1989, won the 1989 presidential election and was reelected in 1993.
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