Mohammad Khiabani
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Sheykh Mohammad Tabrizi, or Khiabani (1880 - 1920), was a Persian cleric and a representative to the parliament. He was born in Tabriz.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Khiabani re-stablished the Democrat Party of Tabriz after being banned for five years, and published the Tajaddod newspaper, the official organ of the party. Later, in a protest to the 1919 Treaty between Persia and the United Kingdom, which exclusively transferred the rights of deciding about all militiary, financial, and customs affairs of Persia to the British, he revolted and took Tabriz and surrounding areas, calling it Azadi-stan (the land of liberty). After the fall of Vosough od-Dowleh, the then prime minister, the new prime minister send Mokhber os-Saltaneh to Tabriz, giving him full authority, who crushed and killed Khiabani (Mokhber os-Saltaneh claimed that Khiabani had committed suicide).