 From London, Melkum Khan attacked both the shah and Iranian government, and edited the news-sheet "Qanun", which was banned in Iran but read by the shah and his ministers.Melkum Khan eventually became recognized as the most important Persian modernizer of the century, and he was later pardoned and reinstated as ambassador to Italy by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah in 1898 with the title of "Nezam od-Dowleh".He remained ambassador to Italy until his death in 1908.