Mirza Saleh Shirāzi (Persian: میرزا صالح شیرازی; c. 1790 – c. 1845) was an Iranian court translator and diplomat, who published the first newspaper in Iran in 1837, the Kaghaz-e Akhbar (lit.

Because of his familiarity with Europe, he was used by Abbas Mirza as a companion and adviser in foreign political matters as well as a point of contact for European missionaries in Iran.

Mirza Saleh was part of the faction that opposed another war with Russia, fearing the comparatively superior capability of the Russian Empire, and wanted armed conflict to be avoided at all costs.

Mirza Saleh wrote a series of dialogues in Persian at Price's request, which the latter then translated into English in his Grammar of three principle Oriental languages.

[1] Their journey to England, referred to as a wanderjahren by the modern historian Nile Green, was an interchange of ideas, which had been made by possible by the diplomatic exchanges between Iran and Great Britain.

Mirza Saleh applied for permission to study European languages, literature, and philosophy, in contrast to the other four courtiers who were anticipated to obtain degrees in technical fields.

Because of this, he started dressing in an English attire and attended the Reverend John Bisset's "gentlemen's academy" in the tiny town of Croydon to study.

Their newly acquired information from outside was transferred into Iranian society: one of them, Jafar Khan, became the nation's chief engineer and in 1847 published the Khulasat al-Hisab, a mathematics textbook, while another named Mirza Reza authored a Persian history of the French military commander and political leader Napoleon.

Because of his familiarity with Europe, he was used by Abbas Mirza as a companion and adviser in foreign political matters as well as a point of contact for European missionaries in Iran.

[1] In early 1825, the northern bank of Lake Gokcha, which the Iranians believed to be a part of their realm, was seized by the Russians under the orders of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, the governor of Georgia.

To advise Fath-Ali Shah and formulate a course of action in this matter, the Council of Soltaniyeh gathered and finally resolved to launch full-scale warfare.