Major General (; d. February 1928] born in Naxçıvan, South of Caucasus) also spelled as Pouladin or , was a senior military leader during the reign of .
Mahmoud Khan came from a military family. His father Hassan Khan was an officer in Cossack Brigade. His father was a Caucasian migrant. Mahmud Khan Pouladin had four brothers: Mansour, Masoud, Ahmad, Mokhtar. All of them followed their father in to military. His youngest brother, Mokhtar Pouladin, was also a military officer and died on heart attack at age of 50. He survived by his second wife Shafigheh Darab and their four children Shokoufeh, Banafsheh, Kourosh and Bahar.
In 1921, he served as personal guard to . He was sent to various parts of Iran where tribal clashes were threatening stability.
Soon after ascended to the throne, arrested on charges of conspiring to overthrow , along with Samuel Jem, a Jewish member of parliament.
The court sentenced him to 10 years in prison, but insisted on a death sentence. Major General , a friend of , refused to carry out the death sentence and resigned from his post.
Finally, in 1928, he was executed in , Tehran, by firing squad. He survived the firing squad's 21 bullets, but Major General went up to the wounded and shot him in the head, finishing the execution.
References 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
See also Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi Mohammad Hosein Airom Abdolhossein Teymourtash Sar Lashgar Buzarjomehri Colonel Pessian Bahram Aryana