Some in the United States have suggested that April 19 be marked as "Iranian-American Friendship Day", the anniversary of Howard Baskerville's assassination.

[citation needed] At present, some unidentified enthusiasts alternately decorate his tombstone in the "Assyrian Cemetery of Tabriz" with fresh yellow flowers.

[5] While in his final year at Princeton University, he corresponded with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (PBFM) in New York, requesting to be sent abroad to gain experience in a new language and culture.

His goal was to be based in a foreign land for about two years after which he would return to America to continue his theological studies and become an ordained minister similar to his father and grandfather.

His application for foreign service with the PBFM eventually resulted in his assignment as a teacher working for American missionaries to teach in Tabriz.

A number of older students and schoolteachers, such as Seyed Hassan Sharifzadeh, called on Dr. Wilson to establish an international law class.

Baskerville's presence in Tabriz coincided with the days when Mohammad Ali Shah bombarded the parliament and suppressed the constitutionalists of different cities.

So after joining the ranks of the fighters, he took charge of providing military training to a group of constitutionalists, especially a number of Memorial School students.

Due to the neutrality of the United States government in the case of Iran, the presence of an American citizen in the heart of the Tabriz struggle was not considered appropriate.

In response, Baskerville called the struggle alongside the constitutionalists a defense of the lives and property of the Americans and the people of Tabriz.

Sattar Khan believed that Baskerville and the soldiers of the Rescue Squad did not have enough experience to work with weapons, so he initially opposed their arming.

On April 19, the wheat supply in Tabriz was only enough for one day, and on the other hand, Sattar Khan failed to provide the cannon he had promised.

[citation needed] With the help of the Rescue Squad that morning, it was decided to attack a part of the besieging forces of Tabriz, which was under the command of Samad Khan Shoja al-Dawla and a number of Cossacks, and break the city wall.

Mehdi Alavizadeh, a member of the Rescue Squad, said: "The night the attack on Samad Khan's forces was to begin the next morning, Baskerville prepared and ordered his followers (members of the Rescue Squad) Before midnight, they gathered at the police station (Tabriz police building, which was one of the bases for nationalists)… (but) of those who had made a pact of sacrifice, only eleven people showed up, and others either did not show up, or their mothers and fathers Baskerville was aware, they stopped their sons; But from the others, a large group was prepared and around midnight we left for Qara Aghaj, and this neighborhood was full of fighters and artillerymen.

"[citation needed] D. C. Moore, who was in another group that day, explained: "I first heard that when he approached the enemy lines, the number of his troops had risen from 150 to five.

"[citation needed] Shafaq describes the beginning of the war as follows: "On the night of the 29th of Farvardin, the news of the readiness in the city was complicated.

When Baskerville turned his back, the sniper returned and fired two shots at him, which hit him in the heart and left the other side of his body.

[citation needed] Shafaq recounted:[citation needed] When we were lying down, at the insistence of Hossein Khan Kermanshahi and others, I kept shouting to Baskerville, who was laying in an aqueduct, not to get up so that other warriors could push us back around the enemy and we could get out or continue our way, but sadly, Baskerville did not respond to my call and went to the left-hand garden through the channel under the wall, on the chest, and the garden wall was between us and him.

One shouted enthusiastically, "He is alive," But not long after, he closed his shining eyes and took his last breath in this sponge of the world, on the bloody soils of Ghazan After that, the other fighters continued the war and as a result, other young people were killed or wounded and little progress was made.

Ahmad Kasravi, an eyewitness to the events of the constitutional era in Tabriz, says: "... because he was considered a guest, everyone was saddened and withered when they heard of his death.

Although hunger has bothered everyone, but they didn't care and they wanted to please the young American's soul, standing all the way from the city to the cemetery, fighters lined up here and there with upside-down guns (as a sign of respect).

Baskerville's disciples and his band of devotees, Armenians, Georgians, Americans, and all freedom fighters, large and small, marched around the corpse with a bouquet of flowers.

Shortly afterwards, Sattar Khan sent his family Baskerville's rifle with his name and date of death engraved on it and wrapped in the Iranian flag, along with a photograph of members of the rescue squad.

[citation needed] Five days after Baskerville's funeral, Sattar Khan and Jamani Ayoleti sent the following telegram to his parents in Spicer, Minnesota: Persia much regrets honorable loss of your dear son in the cause of liberty, and we give our parole that future Persia will always revere his name in her history like Lafayette and will respect his venerable tomb.

The ceremony was organized by Ali Dehghan, Director General of the East Azerbaijan Culture Department, in the High School Hall, named after Baskerville.

Iranian guests included Rezazadeh Shafaq, a student of Baskerville, and others such as Hassan Taghizadeh, Ismail Amirkhizi, Abolghasem Fayuzat, Ali Hiyat, Mehdi Alavizadeh, and Americans living in Tehran.

In December 1979, in the days of the hostage crisis, Thomas M. Ricks, a professor at Georgetown University, took a group of American clergymen to Iran to meet with Ayatollah Khomeini.

"[11] Some in the United States have suggested April 19 the anniversary of Howard Baskerville's assassination to be marked as "Iranian-American Friendship Day".

In 2015, a group from the United States, led by Stephen Kinzer, visited the grave of Howard Baskerville in the Armenian Cemetery in Tabriz.

[12] Chapter XL of the historical fiction novel Samarkand, written by French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, revolves around Baskerville and the Persian Constitutional Revolution.