Notable People :
میرزا مهدی خان منشی الممالک استرآبادی Mirza Mehdi Khan "Etemad-ed-Dowleh" "Monshi-ol-Mamalek" Esterabadi
Mirza Abolghassem Khan "Vazir"
میرزا احمد خان معتضدالدوله وزیر Mirza Ahmad Khan "Motazed-ol-Dowleh" Vaziri
Mirza Abdollah Khan "Meshkat-ed-Dowleh" Vaziri
Mohandess Mirza Abolghassem Khan "Motazed-Daftar" Vaziri
The well-founded history of the Vaziri family goes back to more than 300 years ago. The family represents part of the Iranian Aristocracy (Ashraaf) from 1736 until 1925, they have borne hereditary titles of nobility from the 17th to the 20th century. They received personal titles of nobility from the Safavid, the Afshar and the Qajar dynasties. They mainly were a Ministerial Dynasty*: the Viziers of the province of Kermanshahan (which included the current Kermanshah and Hamedan provinces at this time).
Around 400 years ago , the ancestors were residing in Esterabad (now Gorgan), a former prominent city located in the North-Eastern area of Iran. The oldest ancestor whose information is available is Mirza Nassir Khan Astarabadi, a bureaucrat living in the 17th century. His son, Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (d. 1760) spent his youth at the Safavid Dynasty's Royal Court. Later he became the official chief secretary, court historian, biographer and advisor of Nader Shah Afshar. He is known to be a prominent intellectual and author of this era. When the Ottomans were beaten in 1739, Mirza Mehdi Khan, together with Mostafa Khan Shamlou, was chosen to be the Persian ambassador in the Ottoman Empire. In the same year, Nader Shah was assassinated and the two ambassadors went back to Persia with their army, trying to put a Safavid Prince on the throne, but were beaten by Karim Khan Zand and were obliged to have bureaucratic jobs in his government. However, Astarabadi chose to stay at home and write books and poetry.
Esterabadi's son and nephews were advised to move from Shiraz to Kermanshah by Zangeneh family who was governing Kermanshah. They became Satraps (word still used at this time to indicate the local rulers) in the province. Mirza Bozorg Vazir, Astarabadi's son, became Minister (Vizier). Mirza Bozorg's sons (Mirza Ahmad "Mostowfi" and Mirza Mohammad Khan) became Ministers. Mirza Mohammad Khan was named Malek-o-Shoar (title meaning "king of the poets") of Kermanshah when the Dowlatshahi family settled there. Mirza Ahmad Divanbeigi who was an author of this era has written a lot about the two brothers.
The family members have been ministers of Persia until the reign of Emam Qoli Mirza in Kermanshah. Mirza Abolghassem Khan Vazir who was Mirza Ahmad's grandson and also a good friend and colleague of the Prime Minister Ghaem Magham Farahani, became Vizier (Minister) of the province of Kermanshahan . Emam Qoli Mirza Dowlatshahi's secretary has written some heavy lines about the three brothers (Mirza Abolghassem Vazir, Mirza Abdolrahim, Mirza Mahmoud Khan "Banan-ol-Molk") whose qualities, good works, great family and friends were praised by him.
Mirza Abolghassem's son, Mirza Ahmad Khan Motazed-Dowleh Vaziri (1869-1924), became vizier of the province of Kermanshahan. The two most important domains at this time were the economy and the army. Kermanshah's economy became under the direction of the Vaziri family while its army was under the direction of the Dowlatshahi and Zangeneh families.
Mirza Ahmad Khan "Motazed-Dowleh" Vaziri (1869-1924) was one of the great names in the Constitutional and Freedom movement occured in Persia. He founded the first private school of Kermanshah called "Madreseye Mellie Sheraafat", under the direction of Mirza Mohammad Khan Vaziri. In 1905, he founded the school of Law of Kermanshah and appointed Prince Mohammad Bagher Mirza Khosravi as its principal.
He also created the first printing office of Kermanshah called "Chaap Khaaneye Sheraafate Ahmadi". Furthermore he imported the engines from India, which put Kermanshah at the same level as Tehran, Tabriz and Shiraz. It was the first real (good equipment, copper material, etc..) printing office in Persia. This printing office led to the creation of the first newspaper of Kermanshah in 1906 called "Rooznaameye Kermanshah", which was under the direction of Seyyed Hedayatollah Fasih o Motokallemin . The paper had intellectual contents and was later forbidden by Salar-ed-Dowleh. He also helped the development of the project of books by Prince Mohammad Bagher Mirza Khosravi like "Shams o Tagra", "Ghassed e Soltani", "Divaane Mohammad Bagher Mirza Khosravi", "Makhsane Laali", "Shabaabe Kermanshahi", "Shahnameye Laahooti", etc... .
Moreover due to the fights directed by him for freedom and democracy against the existing dictatorship, his estates were often attacked. When Salar-ed-Dowleh (against Constitutionalism) came to Kermanshah, Vaziri was obliged to go to Tehran, with Mirza Ali Khan Sartip and other important Constitutionalists of Kermanshah to form an alliance with the Constitutionalists and liberals of Tehran. Salar-ed-Dowleh closed the printing office but Mirza Ahmad Khan Motazed-Dowleh didn't accept it and went back from Tehran to open another one.
Motazed-Dowleh's brother Mirza Ali Akbar Khan a.k.a. Mirza Ali Jaan (d. 1909), was well-known for his courage: he stayed in Kermanshah and tried to kill Salar-ed-Dowleh but was assassinated before in 1909. Motazed-Dowleh gave all the money he had to finance freedom, modernity and to develop the Persian culture. When surnames appeared in Persia, members of the family who were managing the schools and the companies for Motazed-Dowleh Bozorg added a "Sheraafat" before their surname and became "Sheraafat-Vaziri". "Sheraafat" was a code between the freemasons, indeed, the Vaziris were of the representatives of Freemasonry in Kermanshah.
In 1914 during the First World War, there was a famine in Persia and Motazed-Dowleh gave a great part of the wheat he had in his cellars and his money to people who needed it (this wheat was worth 250,000 toman of his time which is equal to today's 2.5 million dollars). People wanted to sell their houses, so Motazed-Dowleh bought the houses for high prices, because if he hadn't done it, people would have sold them without having enough money in return. Moreover, Motazed-Dowleh asked his son Mirza Mehdi Khan "Motazed-Dowleh 2nd" to return the houses to the people after his death. He was elected to be a Member of Parliament during the fourth term of the first Majles (Parliament) of Persia. He died of an infarct in 1923. His mansion is today classified as a historical monument.
The district called "Barzeh Damagh" in Kermanshah was renamed "Vaziri" and a square named "Vaziri Square" (Meydoone Vaziri) was built. Motazed-Dowleh's eldest son, "Motazed-Dowleh 2nd" died in 1963. His second son, Mirza Abolghassem Khan "Motazed-Daftar" was born in 1908 and went to study in the American University of Beirut in 1918 and was graduated in electronic engineering from the University of Grenoble in France in 1930 . He, together with his companions, was the first engineer of Persia (Iran).
*: « We must stress the importance of these socio-economic classes from urban backgrounds, and their impressive presence in the device of the Qâjâr power. The stability of the dynasties of vazir (vizier), through the waltz of the Safavid, Afshâr and Zand dynasties already testified of their importance. », Pouvoir et succession en Iran: les premiers Qâjâr, 1726-1834 by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
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Vaziri Square in Kermanshah (renamed Navab Safavi by the Islamic Republic, but still known as Vaziri)
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Website of the Municipality of Kermanshah: http://kermanshahcity.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=1382