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TIL the Ilkhanate, the Mongol-ruled Iranian empire, experienced decline under the reign of Gaykhatu (1291–1295). His mismanagement of the empire's finance as well as alleged sexual relations with a boy led him being assassinated by his cousin Baydu in 1295, which will reigin as the new khan.

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