Safi Mirza was caught in one of the court intrigues in which several leading Circassians were involved, which would eventually cost him his life, and his place in the line of succession to become the next Shah.
Mohammed Baqer Mirza was born in September 1587 by either one of Abbas' Christian Circassian wives,[2][3] or by Fakhr-i Jahan Begam, the daughter of Bagrat IV, King of Imereti.
In 1614, however, during a punitive campaign in Georgia against two former loyal Georgian subjects, Teimuraz I and Luarsab II, the shah heard rumours that the prince was conspiring against his life with a leading Circassian, Farhad Beg Cherkes.
Another Circassian, named Behbud Beg, carried out the Shah's orders, and the prince was murdered in a hammam in the city of Resht; he was buried in Ardabil.
Thinking his father was on his deathbed, his son and heir, Khodabandeh Mirza, began to celebrate his accession to the throne with his Qizilbash supporters.