The Most Beautiful Persian King

  After the assassination of his father on June 16, 1797, he had to face several challenges to his reign. In Khorasan, there would be a growing revolt led by Nader Mirza, who would restore the Afsharid dynasty. The Shah's control was so limited in the fact that an 1800-1801 tax register listed only Sabzevar and Neyshabur as paying taxes to the government, while the rest of the local Khorasani leaders paid no taxes to the state at all.