| Abolqasem Naser al-Molk | |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Sheverin, Qajar Iran |
| Death Place: | Tehran, Pahlavi Iran |
| Office1: | Regent of Persia |
| Term Start1: | March 1911 |
| Term End1: | 21 July 1914 |
| Monarch1: | Ahmad Shah |
| Appointer1: | Parliament |
| Predecessor1: | Azod al-Molk |
| Order2: | 3rd |
| Office2: | Prime Minister of Iran |
| Term Start2: | 27 October 1907 |
| Term End2: | 21 December 1907 |
| Monarch2: | Mohammad Ali Shah |
| Predecessor2: | Moshir al-Saltaneh |
| Successor2: | Nezam al-Saltaneh |
| Office3: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start3: | 1904 |
| Term End3: | 1906 |
| Monarch3: | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah |
| Primeminister3: | Eyn od-Dowleh |
| Monarch4: | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah |
| Primeminister4: | Amin od-Dowleh |
| Term Start4: | February 1897 |
| Term End4: | June 1898 |
| Office5: | Vali of Kurdistan |
| Monarch5: | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah |
| Primeminister5: | Amin al-Soltan |
| Term Start5: | 1900 |
| Term End5: | 1904 |
| Party: | Moderate Socialists Party |
| Alma Mater: | |
| Awards: | Order of Saint Michael and Saint George |
| Children: | 3 |
Abu’l-Qāsem Khān Qarāgozlu (Persian: ابوالقاسمخان قراقزلو), known by the title Nāṣer-al-molk (Persian: ناصرالملک|lit=Assistant of the Realm), (July 13, 1856 – 26 December 1927) was an Iranian politician who served as Regent, Prime and Finance Minister of Iran during the Qajar dynasty.[1]
Al-Molk studied at the Balliol College, Oxford, from 1879 to 1882. Among his classmates were Sir Edward Grey, later British Foreign Secretary, and Cecil Spring-Rice, later British Ambassador to Tehran and Washington.
After returning to Iran, he became an interpreter for Naser al-Din Shah. Later he served as Finance Minister, then as Governor, and for a short time as Prime Minister during the period of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran in the reign of Mohammed Ali Shah Qajar in 1907. However, under pressure from some parliamentarians he resigned. Because he failed to ask Mohammed Ali Shah for his permission before resigning, the latter had him arrested. Al-Molk was released from prison only after an intervention by the British ambassador. Seeing his life threatened, he fled to England.
He did not return to Iran until after the fall of Mohammed Ali Shah in the summer of 1909 where he was installed as Regent for the infant Ahmad Shah Qajar and assumed the office of prime minister once again for a short time. He held the office of Regent until Ahmad Shah came of age in 1914. In a deep political character analysis of Al-Molk, the American treasurer-general of Persia William Morgan Shuster suggested that he showed a lack of strong leadership in his office.[2]
In 1915, Al-Molk left Iran and lived in England until his death. In 1919, he made another political appearance as an advisor to Lord Curzon in the drafting of the Anglo-Persian Agreement of August 1919. He died in 1927 at the age of 64.[3]