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Fazlollah Khan Aq-Avali (Isfahan 1887- Tehran 21 March 1920) also known as Colonel Fazlollah Khan was a gendarmerie officer in the late Qajar period. born in Isfahn Fazlollah Khan was one of A fourteen-member delegation that was commissioned by the Iranian government to serve on a military commission to review the Anglo-Persian agreement, Fazlullah Khan, who saw the agreement as "selling Iran", committed suicide on March 24, 1920, in protest. Following his suicide, there were widespread protests throughout Iran that prevented the agreement from being concluded.

life
according to Siavsh Bashiri, Fazlollah Khan was son of Amanullah Khan Nasir Khaqan, personal physician of Banu Azami, sister of Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan. Nasser al-Din Shah had rewarded Fazlollah Khan's grandfather Baqer Khan Sayyah Spanloo several estate in Isfahan due on his servise as Shah's personal astrologer. his Brother Farajollah became a lieutenant general in Imperial Army of Iran.

Fazlollah Khan was trained in France, returned to Iran in 1909 and started working for the Tabriz Gendarmerie, but was forced to return to Isfahan the same year after occupying Tabriz. From 1911 to 1914, Fazlollah Khan was the head of Gendarmerie in important cities including Qom, Arak, Malayer, Golpayegan and Nahavand. At the same time, Major Harald Hjalmarson became in command of the Persian Gendarmerie, a decision whose main opponent was Fazlollah Khan. With the outbreak of World War I and the Persian campaign in 1915, Fazlullah Khan was appointed head of the Sari Gendarmerie. He had wide-ranging disputes with Fathullah Khan Akbar, the then governor of Mazandaran. These disputes eventually led to his dismissal in 1916. In his memoirs, Zia ol Din Tabatabaee described the source of these disputes as "Fathullah Khan's illegal demands". in the same year Fazlollah Khan went to Tehran as a special force to guard Ahmad Shah's carriage to Isfahan, At that time, a plan was presented to transfer the capital to Isfahan however it was later canceled.