Mohammad Ali Shah was deposed on 15 July 1909 and stayed at the Russian Embassy in Tehran for 53 days before settling in Odessa. In 1911, at the same time as the authoritarian uprising in Mashhad, he entered Iran with his two brothers, Malek Mansur Mirza Shoa O-Saltaneh and Abolfath Mirza Salar al-Dawlah, and encamped at Gomsh Tappeh (Gomishan). Shoa O-Saltaneh took the road to Mazandaran and camped in Babol to gather an army. Salar al-Dawlah went to Kurdistan, where he raised another army and marched on Gerrus. The local Khans of Mazandaran and Astarabad quickly joined Ali Shah. The parliament was in crisis, they quickly set a reward for the arrest of Ali Shah, at the same time many members of parliament took refuge in the British embassy to avoid being killed.
