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What Happens Next in the Path of the Government?
In the 1910s, there is a concerted effort to restructure the legal and eventually carceral apparatus of the state in Iran. By 1925, Reza Shah has taken power through a sort of co-led military coup; he consolidates power around himself because of this anxiety about needing a strong centralizing figure. But you start to see a shift in at least some nationalists thinking away from these earlier calls for a matchless or even earlier, the Edalat Khane.