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In Persia, apart from the sovereign who had, in the full tide of his hopes and the plenitude of his power, been removed from the scene in so startling a manner, a number of princes, ministers and mujtahids, who had actively participated in the suppression of a persecuted community, including Kamran Mirza, the Na'ibu's- Saltanih, the Jalalu'd- Dawlih and Mirza Ali- Asghar Khan, the Atabik- i- A'zam, and Shaykh Muhammad- Taqiy- i- Najafi, the "Son of the Wolf," lost, one by one, their prestige and authority, sank into obscurity, abandoned all hope of achieving their malevolent purpose, and lived, some of them, long enough to behold the initial evidences of the ascendancy of a Cause they had so greatly feared and so vehemently hated.
(318:1)
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