Zavir Khakestari
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Zavir Khakestari | |
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| Prime Minister of Shirazam | |
| In office 1888–1912 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Batraz Khan Shazadeh |
Zavir Khakestari was a Melekist scholar, cleric, revolutionary, and early Shirazamite politician and one of the founders of the Second Republic, the first modern Shirazamite state, and served at its Prime Minister from 1888 to 1912. Beforehand, he was Second-in-Command of the Front for an Ayar State which he co-founded with Batraz Khan Shazadeh in the aftermath of the failed First Republic of Shirazam in 1871. A key figure of the movement, he is credited as the true political philosopher of the FAS while also handling its day-to-day operations even while imprisoned by the Zilungeses, from 1880 to 1888. As Prime Minister, his political saviness and diplomatic skills allowed him to keep the many post-insurgency factions working together, notably Batraz and Roxolan. As a result, his death of natural cause in 1912 would trigger a political crisis which led to the fall of the Second Republic and the creation of the Third. Fravartes Shahzadeh [...]