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The person on the right in the background: Mohammad Ali Shah, who abolished the constitution and bombed the parliament in Iran with the support of Britain and Russia...
The Russian type, next to the Shah, shows the parliament to the artillery.

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“Kamarilla - My dear sultan, you can proclaim the Constitution without worry. You gather the parliamentarians in the same building and do as the Shah of Iran did.”

Nueu Glühlichter, Agu. 12, 1908
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The cover of Neue Glühlichter, published in Vienna a few weeks after the proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy.
The cartoon says that Abdülhamit II can abolish the Constitution again.

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