US Foreign Officer Robert Whitney Imbrie was murdered in Tehran following injuries sustained when a crowd at a well where a miracle had been claimed to have taken place mistook him for being Bahai, apparently. Feelings had been running high in Persia against the Bahai, which is the country it which the universalist religion had arisen in the 19th Century.
The incident was used by Reza Khan, prime minister and minister of war, to declare martial law and consolidate power, and has been regarded by some as suspicious.
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