The conditions of the country were not fully studied before the monopoly powers were put in force.

A suggestion was made that the company's operations should be confined at first to the foreign export, which would have returned a good profit, and that afterwards a beginning should be made at Tehran, to prove to the people that the monopoly would really give them better tobacco, and not raise prices, which the company claimed would be the result of their system.

But everything was planned on an extensive scale, and so were prospective profits.

The picture of a rapid road to fortune had been exhibited, and it was therefore decided that the full right of monopoly should be established at once.

An imprudent beginning was made in exercising the right of search in a manner which alarmed some people for the privacy of their homes, a dangerous suggestion in a Mohammedan community.
The suspicions and fears of all--buyers, sellers, and smokers--were easily worked upon by the priests, ever ready to assert the supremacy of the Church over the State.