Manuchehr Khan Gorji Mo'tamed al-Dowleh (Persian: منوچهر خان گرجی معتمدالدوله; died 9 February 1847) was a eunuch in Qajar Iran, who became one of the most powerful statesmen of the country in the first half of the 19th century.

[1] A member of the Enikolopian family and the aznauri nobility class, Manuchehr Khan was born as Chongur Enikolopiant in the city of Tbilisi in Georgia.

The Enikolopians began learning languages while they were young, and they frequently served in diplomatic positions thanks to their command of Armenian, Georgian, Persian, Turkish, and Arabic.

The author of the anthology Mada'ih al-mu'tamadiyya tried to connect him to Iranian kingship by claiming that he was a descendant of Khosrow I (r. 531–579), the king of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire.

According to the Japanese historian Nobuaki Kondo, "It must have been too difficult for the author to link Manuchehr Khan with the prophet Muhammad, or any other Islamic saints.

In contrast to the pre-existing slave-soldiers framework, Manuchehr Khan's rise explicitly shows the Iranian model of the slave elite system, where familial and local connections were essential.

The state of the Muslim minority under Russian authority and, lastly, whether and to what extent Russia had been weakened as a result of its internal crises, were secondary concerns.

The Iranians eventually lost the second war with the Russians, and were thus forced to sign the Treaty of Turkmenchay on 28 February 1828, in which they agreed to cede Erivan and Nakhichevan.

[18][10] Using Manuchehr Khan's advise, Fath-Ali Shah had avoided assigning Iranian natives to the first delegation during the peace treaty talks in the Turkmanchay village.

Additionally, Manuchehr Khan attended the peace treaty talks held in Turkmanchay and was responsible for preparing and transporting the war-loss payment for the Russians there.

He ordered that the Georgian concubines who were held in the harems of the Qajars (including those of the former prime minister Asef al-Dowleh) be released into his care.

[21] In 8 June 1829, Neshat Isfahani died,[22] and thus his title of "Mo'tamed al-Dowleh" ("Trustee of the State") was passed on to Manuchehr Khan by Fath-Ali Shah.

[26] When Báb arrived in Isfahan in 1846, Manuchehr gave him protection and, allegedly, offered military services to conquer Iran and spread his teachings into the country and even beyond it.

Through Tabriz, Astrakhan, Rasht, Constantinople, Baghdad, Bushehr, Madras, and Calcutta, their Armenian trading network spanned the all of Iran and the neighboring lands.

In order to acquire gifts to give to Fath-Ali Shah in the hopes of becoming appointed to positions of authority in the provinces, Manuchehr Khan would loan the business' income to courtiers.

A document from 1822 shows that Manuchehr Khan made a major acquisition by paying 48,565 toman to the chief merchant of Baghdad, Elias Antoon.