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"Axis of Upheaval" is a term coined in 2024 by Center for a New American Security foreign policy analysts Richard Fontaine and Andrea Kendall-Taylor and used by many foreign policy analysts, [1] [2] [3] military officials, [4] [5] and international groups [6] to describe the growing anti-Western collaboration between Russia, Iran, China and ...
The invasion's strategic purpose was to ensure the safety of Allied supply lines to the USSR (see the Persian Corridor), secure Iranian oil fields, limit German influence in Iran (Reza Shah had leveraged Germany to offset the British and Soviet spheres of influence on Iran) and preempt a possible Axis advance from Turkey through Iran toward the ...
The phrase "axis of evil" was first used by U.S. President George W. Bush and originally referred to Iran, Ba'athist Iraq, and North Korea.It was used in Bush's State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, less than five months after the September 11 attacks and almost a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and often repeated throughout his presidency.
These maps track the Axis invasion of Russia from June to August and August to December, respectively. Early regions of advance boundaries were modified using Map 4. Summary of Operations, 22 June-30 September 1940 from Glantz, David M. (2011) Operation Barbarossa Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941, History Press ISBN: 9780752468426. Author: Wtfiv
Russia's effort to expand its role in the Middle East is entwined with its relations with the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance. It is not a meaningful strategic alliance, but Russia and Iran share a common interest in preserving the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, [100] where Russia has military bases (e.g. at Latakia and Tartus).
Date: 29 October 2024: Source: This file was derived from: Eastern Front 1941-06 to 1941-12.png: by Gdr, which was used as the base.Maps of Soviet Pockets were Own work based on: Invasion1941.jpg and German Advance on Moscow, 1941.jpg, which come from maps in the The Department of History, United States Military Academy Atlases.
Rumored German instigation for a pro-Axis coup d'état in Iran before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. [24] Operation Tiger (German plans to instigate a pro-Axis Pashtun insurrection on Waziristan to menace North India through Border conflicts with Afghanistan. Carried out since August 1942, but cancelled in 1944 due to economical problems)
The Shah of Iran, shortly after his father's forced abdication during the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran, meeting with American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Conference The Shah of Iran (center), pictured to the right of Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference (1943) Footage from the Cairo and Tehran conferences