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This hope, however, was to remain unfulfilled. It was indeed shattered by a reign which had been inaugurated by the execution of the Bab, and the imprisonment of Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-Chal of Tihran, by a sovereign who had repeatedly instigated Baha'u'llah's successive banishments, and by a dynasty that had been sullied by the slaughter of no less than twenty thousand of His followers. The Shah's dramatic assassination, the ignoble rule of the last sovereigns of the House of Qajar, and the retribution which these horrid atrocities had provoked.
(67:2)
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