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In the past he has often declared, "Persia can wait," when requested to return by anxious Persian nobles. But when he left Persia two years ago, Reza Khan is reported to have told him that he had "neither the gift nor the acquired talent for government." And since his worst enemies cannot deny that he has both a gift and a talent for a soft, langorous, dreamy mood," he has apparently remained content without harem, palace or actual royal state. His dynasty, the Kajar, it was noted, has ruled since 1779, when the Zand dynasty was overthrown. Shah Ahmad himself came to the throne in 1909 at the age of eleven.