Akbar Khan Zand (Persian: اکبر خان زند, romanized: Akbar Khān Zand) was an Iranian prince from the Zand dynasty, who played a lively and vicious role in the fratricidal power conflict that took place after the death of Karim Khan Zand in 1779.

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