At CBS News, staffers are apparently barred from reading history books.

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4. Iran's first Parliament predated that. The "Great Powers" wanted it gone.

I kind of suspect that's a little closer to Iranian hearts than something that happened to the Palestinian Arabs. (Iranians are not Arabs. Arabs are not Iranians.)

The Persian Constitutional Revolution (Persian: مشروطیت, romanized: Mašrutiat, or انقلاب مشروطه[10] Enqelâb-e Mašrute), also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911[11] during the Qajar era. The revolution led to the establishment of a parliament in Iran (Persia),[11][12] and has been called an "epoch-making episode in the modern history of Persia".[12]

The revolution was "the first of its kind in the Islamic world, earlier than the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908".[12] It opened the way for the modern era in Iran, and debate in a burgeoning press. Many groups fought to shape the course of the revolution. The old order, which Naser al-Din Shah Qajar had struggled for so long to sustain, was finally replaced by new institutions.

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signed the 1906 constitution shortly before his death. He was succeeded by Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, who abolished the constitution and bombarded the parliament in 1908 with Russian and British support. This led to a second effort with constitutionalist forces marching to Tehran, forced Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar's abdication in favour of his young son, Ahmad Shah Qajar, and re-established the constitution in 1909.

The revolution ended in December 1911 when the Shah's ministers oversaw the expulsion of the deputies of the Second Majlis from the parliament "with the support of 12,000 Russian troops".[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Constitutional_Revolution