Zeinab Pasha: Iranian Robin hood
The most prominent move was the tobacco movement against the grant of tobacco concession to an English subject at the time of Nasseraddin Shah. Following the opposition of the clergy and Mirza Hassan Shirazi’s fatwa banning tobacco smoking, protests became so widespread that women of the Shah’s household avoided smoking of tobacco. They also objected to the king and the tobacco deal, and broke all bubbles in the royal household.