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Nasser-e-Din also contracted huge foreign loans to finance expensive personal trips to Europe. He also granted foreigners – primarily British – concessions for building railways and irrigation canals, and for the processing and sale of all tobacco in the country. All of this combined unwittingly led to Iranian nationalism, with the new tobacco rules triggering a nationwide boycott of tobacco products and a clerical fatwa, which forced Nasser-e-Din to back down.
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Nasser-e-Din also contracted huge foreign loans to finance expensive personal trips to Europe. He also granted foreigners – primarily British – concessions for building railways and irrigation canals, and for the processing and sale of all tobacco in the country. All of this combined unwittingly led to Iranian nationalism, with the new tobacco rules triggering a nationwide boycott of tobacco products and a clerical fatwa, which forced Nasser-e-Din to back down.