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The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan Crisis (Persian: غائلهٔ آذربایجان, romanized: Qā'ele-ye Āzarbāyejān) in the Iranian sources, was one of the first crises of the Cold War, sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin 's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory despite repeated assurances.
[1] [2] Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan People's Government capital was the city of Tabriz. It was headed by an ethno-separatist and communist government led by the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, [5] which also followed a pan-Turkist discourse. [6] Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, an early event in ...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2 was adopted unanimously by the United Nations Security Council on January 30, 1946. The Council urged Iran and the Soviet Union to resolve the crisis caused by the Soviet occupation of Iranian territory. [1]
The history of Azerbaijan is understood as the history of the region now forming the Republic of Azerbaijan. Topographically, the land is contained by the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains in the north, the Caspian Sea in the east, and the Armenian Highlands in the west. In the south, its natural boundaries are less distinct, and here ...
Reformers' Party (1920s)[1] Spouse (s) Shazdeh Khanoom (divorced) Zahra Alizadeh (divorced) Zahra Delshad [2] Children. 1 [3] Ahmad Qavam (2 January 1873 – 23 July 1955; Persian: احمد قوام), also known as Qavam os-Saltaneh (Persian: قوام السلطنه), was an Iranian politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran five times.
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Jamil Hasanli (Azerbaijani: Cəmil Poladxan oğlu Həsənli) (born 15 January 1952) is an Azerbaijani historian, author and politician. He served as a professor at Baku State University in 1993–2011 and as a professor at Khazar University in 2011–2013. He was an advisor to the President of Azerbaijan ...
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic entered World War II with the Soviet Union after the German declaration of war on June 22, 1941. Azerbaijan's oilfields were enticing to the Germans due to the USSR's heavy dependency on Caucasus oil – setting the scene for German campaigns attempting to capture and seize the oilfields in Baku during ...
The Republic of Mahabad, also referred to as the Republic of Kurdistan[5][6][7][8] (Kurdish: کۆماری کوردستان, romanized: Komara Kurdistanê; Persian: جمهوری مهاباد), was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran, [9][10] from 22 January to 15 December 1946. The Republic of Mahabad, a ...