The troubles begin

After the end of the wars, the Russians colonized and settled their new Transcaucasian territories, and dealt with local uprisings. They were not interested in the annexation of Iranian Azarbaijan. They put pressure on the Iranians to settle their frontier tribes, but both sides had much to gain from keeping groups like the Shahsevan nomadic. Iran relied on the nomads' pastoral produce and on their role as frontier guards, while the Russians not only gained considerably themselves from the Shahsevan contribution to the economy of the Moghan settlers, but also were able to put to good political use their tally of the latter's complaints of Shahsevan raiding. The officials and diplomats concerned were well aware of these factors in the situation. Though the Russians pressed for settlement of the nomads, they knew the Iranians would not be keen, and anyway the British agents advised the Iranians against such a policy. So the Iranian officials took half-measures, succeeding only in lining their pockets and further antagonizing the nomads.

According to Radde and Markov, it was in response to Russian complaints concerning Shahsevan raids and disturbances that the Iranian authorities in 1839 created the offices of elbey for the two sections of the Moghan Shahsevan tribes. The only other Iranian move concerning the Shahsevan that I know to have been carried out before 1849 was the visit of Mohammad Shah's brother Bahman Mirza, governor-general of Azarbaijan, to Ardabil, Meshkin and possibly Moghan, in November 1843, when he ‘arranged the frontier’.