| Summary: | Yeprem Khān, a Christian Armenian born in Eastern Armenia in the Caucasus under the Russian rule in 1868, had been originally committed to the liberation movement of Western Armenia under the Ottoman rule. Captured by the Russian authorities in 1890, he was exiled to Sakhalin, where he succeeded in escaping via Siberia into Iran. As a member of the Dashnak Party of Eastern Armenia, he devoted himself in protecting Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-11), with the purpose of the liberation of all ethnic groups including Armenian minority in Iran as a nation. During the counterrevolution period (1908-09), he led the Rasht revolt as an excellent military leader and recaptured Tehran. In the second constitutional period (1909-11), he kept internal security as the police chief, protecting the constitutional government against the attacks of the reactionary forces several times. However, faced with the Russian ultimatum at the end of 1911, he finally decided to close the parliament by his police forces, thus, ironically enough, bringing the Constitutional Revolution to the end by himself. He was killed at the battlefield in 1912.
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