Shirazi tobacco fatwa

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The Shirazi tobacco fatwa was an 1891 religious decree by Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi that prohibited tobacco use in Iran, sparking a nationwide boycott and becoming a landmark episode of popular resistance to foreign economic influence and royal authority.

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