“For a secular, democratic, friendly Iran in the world community”
A biography of Howard Baaskerville
by S.R. Shafagh
Howard Conklin Baskerville (10 April 1885 – 19 April 1909) was an American teacher in the American Memorial School in Tabriz (a Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran) who was killed fighting for Iranian democracy during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. He has been called the “American Lafayette of Iran.”
The US. flag flies over the U.S. consulate near Arg e Tabriz, Iran, during Iran’s Constitutionalist Revolution.
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