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General Musa Hakimi Nazm ol Saltaneh was a very courageous officer and together with his sister Mah Lagha were strong figures of the family. His title Nazm ol Saltaneh dates back to the Qajar era and literally means one who is trusted with maintaining order in the land. His rank in Persian was Mir Panj . He was brother of
Ebrahim Hakimi the last Hakim-el-Molk. He was a senior member of the
military in Iran in the latter part of Qajar era. He sided with the forces of
the Constitutional Movement and in July 1909
and led one of the two armies
of the Nationalist Freedom Fighters(Mojahedeen) who clashed with the Persian
Cossack Brigade, the The Mojahedeen forces
consisted of two main groups, one group came down from the Caspian
province of Gilan in Northern Iran under the political leadership of Sepahdar Tonekabonie
Khalaatbari. The other came from Southern Iran and Isfahan led by the Bakhtiari Chieftan Sardar
Assad. The forces having approached Teheran from the North and South
then united to liberate the capital. The military commander of the Gilan
group was Yeprem or Yefrem Khan, an Armenian who
passionately hated the tyranny of Czarist Russia and the When King Edward VII died of Britain in 1910, Musa attended the funeral as part of the Persian delegation (see photo). His report of the funeral in Persian is available in digital image format: 1 2 3 4 5. He had a falling out with Reza Khan (later Reza Shah) and 'sat at home' as the Persian expression goes without pay and he was under observation all during Reza Shah's rule. It was said that Reza Shah was wary of him. There were various rumours of the reasons for his falling out with Reza Shah. One wild rumour which is based on the notion that the 1920 Coup by Reza Shah in Iran was a British conspiracy and the British first offered Musa Hakimi the power. In the last two centuries Iranians believe every event in Iran is inspired by one or other of the old colonial foes, mainly the British. The truth is nothing of the sort. In a letter to a journal of history in Iran, his son explained the reason was a result of Musah Hakimi's pursuit of the investigation into the murder of his nephew Gholi (Kamal o doleh's son) who was working as a civilian as the treasurer of an army division based in Eshrat Abad (circa 1924). Gholi refused to release the funds to General Jan Mohammad Alaie (Jan Mohammad Khan - who supported Reza Khan in his coup of 1920 ), the commander of Eshrat Abad Army Division, with the approval of central treasury. At the same time the parliament was debating the future of monarchy and Reza Khan was the prime minister. Someone had given the leader of the opposition the clergy Modares a secret copy of the War Ministry's budget which the latter used in his censure of the government. The young Hakimi was accused of releasing the information to the minority oppositon leader and was not heard of again. Later his headless body was found near the fort and some time after that his head. Early in Reza Shah's rule , he asked to see General Musa Hakimi offering him a senior post if he would drop the case. Musa did not agree and that is the last time the two of them met. Musa lost his post and pension. He was being watched till Reza Shah was removed form the throne by the British when the Allies invaded neutral Iran in 1942. Last updated by Hamid in 2012, London
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