To further understand the role of Iranian constitutional revolution this section explores that it was the economic and foreign concessions during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah and Muzaffar al-Din Shah that had its roots in the discontent of the propertied class, thus playing a role in the revolution. Nasir al-Din Shah’s tobacco concession is a vital example, as the sale and export of all Iranian tobacco was given to British subject major G.F. Talbot in 1890. This resulted in widespread discontent and mass boycott by merchants, ulama and townspeople because it dealt “with a product widely grown in Iran, and profiting many landholders, shopkeepers and exporters.” Therefore, as Abrahamian had noted, the middle class become “conscious for the
