An Analysis of Components of the exile of Political Opponents in the First Pahlavi Era (The person who had been exiled, the place of exile and the reason for exile)

Reza Shah's period was distinctive from the perspective of using exile punishment to punish his opponents that made this period distinct from the past era. Exile of nomadic tribes and was reminiscent of exile in past periods and it reminded the opponents of reform policies (military services, uniformity of cloths and unveiling Hijab) and also officials who were critics of the government, exile of the opponents and the critics of dictatorship government. By investigating social groups in this era, in this study we have tried to answered this question that whether triple components of the person who had been exiled, the place of exile and the reason for exile in the Reza Shah’s era showed the same pattern for the situation of the persons who had been exiled, that was the result of the uniform policy of the government about this matter. The method used in this paper is historical analysis with the help of archival records and documents and the use of original sources. The findings show that the same pattern for the situation of the people in exile cannot be seem in the era of Reza Shah and analysis of the three mentioned components show that in this period exile had the same characteristics as the exile in foregoing governments and it had also the attributes of exile in dictatorship governments.