Mahmud Khan Puladeen
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Major General Mahmud Khan Pulādeen (Template:Langx; d. February 1928), also spelled as Pouladeen, was a senior military leader during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi.
In 1921, he served as personal guard to Zia ol Din Tabatabaee. He was sent to various parts of Iran where tribal clashes were threatening stability.
Soon after Reza Shah ascended to the throne, Major General Puladeen was arrested on charges of conspiring to overthrow Reza Shah, along with Samuel Jem, a Jewish member of parliament.
The court sentenced him to 10 years in prison, but Reza Shah insisted on his death sentence. Major General Sarteep Sheibani (a friend of Puladeen's) refused to carry out the death sentence and resigned from his post.
Finally, in 1928, he was executed in Bagh-Shah, Tehran, by firing squad. He managed to survive the firing squad's 21 bullets, but Major General Karim Buzarjomehri went up to the wounded Puladeen and shot him in the head, finishing the execution.
References
- 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). Template:ISBN (Vol. 1), Template:ISBN (Vol. 2).