Struggle of Liberation and Despotism in Iran: an Analysis of Khoy's Constitutionalist's Struggles against the Royalists Khans of Maku during the Constitutional Revolution

By the victory of Constitutional Revolution in Iran, royalists of Maku backed Mohammad-Ali Shah and began to confront with the new political system and its institutions. Also, liberals of Khoy formed the Mojahid groups and started to encounter the royalists of Maku to defend the gains of the revolution. The outcome of these conflicts appeared in the form of wars and massacres between the two parties. This descriptiveanalytical study has shed some light on the reasons, results, and the related issues leading to triggering of conflicts between the Constitutionalists of Khoy and despots of Maku. Findings indicate that differences in intellectual tendency and origin and social class of the royalists of Maku with the Constitutionalists of Khoy had an important role in conflicts between them. Also these conflicts were the reflection of opposition between the despots and constitutionalists in other areas of Iran.