Rais-Ali Delvari

Some of his personal items and historic documents are exhibited in this museum, along with various types of guns and horse caparisoning.

Western interest in Persia was based on its significant oil reserve and its strategic situation between Afghanistan and the warring Ottoman, Russian, and British empires.

Germany established their Intelligence Bureau for the East on the eve of World War I, dedicated to promoting and sustaining subversive and nationalist agitations in British India and the Persian and Egyptian satellite states.

The bureau was involved in intelligence and subversive missions to Persia and Afghanistan to dismantle the Anglo-Russian Entente.

During first years of World War I, Rais Ali and Wassmuss were busy formulating a general anti-British uprising in Persia.

But in late December al-Molk was expelled from Shiraz by pro-German officers in the Iranian gendarmerie and the radical Democrat Party members who occupied the city and confiscated British-owned assets.

[7] Five days later Royal Navy warships bombarded the headquarters of the Tangestanis tribal at Dilbar; and on 3 and 9 September the British Indian Army repulsed several Tangistani raids,[7] in these clashes, Rais Ali was killed in action.

Statue of Rais Ali Delvari in Bushehr
Map of the Bushehr region showing tribal districts and their political allegiances, 1915.
Rais Ali Delvari and other fighters