Mujahideen of Saturday

Mujahideen of Saturday (Persian: مجاهدین روز شنبه) is a term used by Ahmad Kasravi and Mehdi Malekzadeh in their books of History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Originally, this term mention those politicians who weren't Constitutionalists in Persian Constitutional Revolution but when Mohammad Ali Shah deposed, Suddenly they changed their faction. Two examples that Kasravi and Malekzadeh used for this term was Qavam os-Saltaneh and Vossug ed Dowleh, two brother that in Constitutional Revolution were in Authoritarians faction but after triumph of Tehran, they became Constitutionalists and became prime ministers in Ahmad Shah reign.[1]

  1. ^ Kasravi, Ahmad (2006). History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publications. p. 365. ISBN 1-56859-197-7.