Abyane; red ruby of desert RI

DELWAR is a small harbor village fifty kilometers away from the center of one of the coastal sections in BUSHER. Word DELWAR means brave. Most people in this area are fishers. Sometimes they go to emirate states. Its situation is such that large ships can dock at the beach. So its name is mentioned at some points in the history.
DELWAR port which had a population of about 700 then, made biggest role in the defense of territory in 1914.
Reis Ali, son of Reis Mohammad was born in a village near BOUSHER on 1882. In constitutional era, he was 24 years young man, ambitious and courageous. Trusted in God and loved his own country. Although he was not well educated, but was well known for clean nature and character. When British soldiers occupied BOUSHER, Reis, with indescribable courage attacked aggressors and made heavy losses on them. In 1914, British army intended to capture DELWAR, where before, they stormed and tasted the bitterness of defeat. Reis came in to the battle against the occupiers and invaders who were about five thousand men and finally had rout the out. Uprising lasted seven years and in that time, warriors of TANGESTAN were following two main objects: 1) protection of BUSHER, BORAZJAN and TANGESTAN as their home region. 2) To prevent the infiltration of foreign powers into Iranian territory and defend the independence of the country. With counterrevolutionary coup of Russian LYAKOVE against constitutionalists and bombing of national assembly on 1908 and dictatorship of Mohammad Ali shah, Reis and Syed MORTEZA ALAMALHODA AHROMI started to fight against minor tyranny. On 1909, Reis Ali conquered BOSHER and expelled all king elements. This was not tolerable for English fellows who were having custom department on rented basis. So they tried to continue to undermine the political and economic domination of southern Iran with fight against TANGESTANIES. In this way they took help of other KHANS. The battle between Reis Ali and his brave followers on one side and English forces and their supporting KHANS on the other side were frequent and sporadic until August 1915. But English fellows failed in their attempt. Unfortunately in one of the attacks, on third September 1915, at a place called TANGAK SAFAR when Reis Ali was in ambush, one of his own companions fired at him from back and killed him instantly. Campaigns of DELWARI is another golden leave on the strength of brave men in the struggle against colonialism.

Who was Reis Ali?

When Iran was weak and statesmen were dependent on England or Russia, he started anti -colonial struggle and became immortals like MIRZA KOUCHAK KHAN, SHEIKH MOHAMMAD KHIABANI, COLONEL MOHAMMAD TAGHI PASIAN and many others.
12 SHAHRIVAR (Iranian calendar) is day of struggle. The day is the anniversary of martyrdom of Reis Ali. Man of south.
Even though he was so young, but he had deep believe in constitution which was signed by MOZAFARODIN SHAH. The constitutional decree had a wave of hope in Iran for many years. But Mohammad Ali the next king destroyed every hope.

Minor tyranny and BUSHER uprising

While in Tehran, king was executing many constitutional leaders, BOUSHER had become a hotbed of resistance to minor tyranny. In the center of resistance there was a prominent cleric by name AYATOLLAH SEYED MORTEZA ALAMAL HODA. The focus of resistance at the beginning of its activity was in a sudden rush and capture of BUSHER. So England began to weaken the constitutionalists to get economist interests of southern IRAN.

Suppressing the revolutionary elements by U.K

To suppress the revolutionary elements like Reis Ali, England excited the puppet ruler of BUSHER by name AHMAD KHAN DARYA BEIGI to attack DELWAR. Ahmad with British encouragement attacked several times, but failed. On the eve of the First World War, the English forces under the pretext of maintaining order and security began a gradual occupation of southern Iran. This was not tolerable by Reis Ali. He was telling this is clear violation of national sovereignty and independence. And also Iranian cleric leaders like AYATOLLAH SEYED LARRY and SEYED ABDOLLAH BALADI reacted and called on all Muslims to fight the invaders.

Decolonization and martyrdom

Overnight raids on the British forces brought significant impacts and loses. In one of the crackdowns Reis killed two English senior officers and few Indian soldiers. This attack was in tolerable. England sent four war ships along with 5000 soldiers. Reis sent women and children out of DELWAR. In this unequal battle, English military men were defeated and withdrew. After this war, DELWARE continued his attacks on BUSHER. Unfortunately, on third September 1915, one of his companions had shot him from back.

Movement back ground

This uprising was based on national and religious motives. Even though the policy of government, as a source of national power was based on principle of neutrality, but authorities did not help. And in many cases aligned with enemy fighters. In the region, there was no collaboration in tribal leaders. So some of the tribes cooperated with England against Islamic warriors. So the field was narrowed on freedom fighters like Reis. Accordingly, trends and performance of Reis in connection with this move, more than anything, was formed on the basis of religious orders.

Betrayal, main hurt in TANGESTAN movement

Each social movement and political uprising has positive and negative aspects. Uprising in southern Iran was no exception. One of the saddest thing is that, most liberation movements, in the face of foreign colonists and local tyrants have been betrayed by some individuals or groups. For example we see great uprisings in the north by MIRZA KOUCHAK KHAN and another by REIS ALI DELWARI IN SOUTH. The reason for the failure was betrayal from within and stab from back, by the traitors. Anyway religious leaders and freedom fighters showed hard and heroic resistance against invadors.