Mohammad Taqi Pessian
Mohammad-Taqi Khan Pessian (Persian: محمدتقیخان پسیان; 1892 – 3 October 1921), more commonly known as Colonel Pessian, was an Iranian gendarme. He was born to Moḥammad-Bāqer Khan Pesyān and his wife Fāṭema Solṭān, into a prominent, apparently Amir Solaymāni Kurdish family, who had emigrated from the Caucasus after Iran’s defeat in the Russo-Persian War of 1826-28 and the incorporation of territories into the Russian Empire (Pesyān, pp.