Rais-Ali Delvari

Rais-Ali Delvari (Persian: رئیسعلی دلواری) was an Iranian military leader. He is remembered as a national hero in Iran who organized popular resistance against British colonizer forces which had invaded Iran in 1915.

Rais Ali, son of Rais Mohammad, was born in 1882 in the port city of Bushehr. In the age of constitutionalism he was 24, chivalrous, brave, unparalleled in sincerity and famous for patriotism and reliance upon God. Subsequent to the British occupation of Bushehr, Rais Ali resisted the British and inflicted several defeats on them. After the occupation of Bushehr, British forces decided to take over Delvar, a place they had earlier experienced heavy defeats. Rais Ali and his companions fought the occupiers and routed them who were nearly 5000 people. The uprising in Tangestan lasted for nearly seven years in which Daliran Tangestan (the brave of Tangestan) pursued two goals: guarding Bushehr, Dashtestan and Tangestan to prevent the foreign forces from infiltrating the country and securing the independence of the country. Rais Ali Delvari was eventually attacked from behind by a traitor and martyred on September 2, 1915, when he was 33.

His house, located in Delvar, near Bushehr, has been transformed into an ethnological museum. Some of Rais Ali Delvari's personal items, as well as historic documents of his time, various types of guns and horse caparisoning are exhibited in this museum.