Colonel Pessian

Mohammad-Taqi Khan Pessian, more commonly known as Colonel Pessian, was an Iranian gendarme. He was born to Moḥammad-Bāqer Khan Pesyān and his wife Fāṭema Solṭān, into a prominent, apparently Amir Solaymāni Kurdish family, who had emigrated from the Caucasus after Iran’s defeat in the Russo-Persian War of 1826-28 and the incorporation of territories into the Russian Empire ., family fighter pilot and warlord who formed and led the short-lived Autonomous Government of Khorasan in 1921. He was killed in a skirmish by Kurdish tribal forces in a battle with forces sent by Ahmad Qavam, the prime minister at the time.