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The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran (Persian: اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British Empire and Russian Empire in various areas of what was then neutral Qajar Iran, beginning in December 1914 and ending with the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I.
The Russo-Persian Wars or Russo-Iranian Wars (Persian: جنگهای ایران و روسیه, romanized: Janghâye Irân va Russī-ye) were a series of conflicts between 1651 and 1828, concerning Persia and the Russian Empire. Russia and Persia fought these wars over disputed governance of territories and countries in the Caucasus.
Qajar Iran Ottoman Empire: Victory: Treaty of Erzurum, status quo ante bellum: Russo-Persian War of 1826 (1826–1828) Qajar Iran Russian Empire: Defeat: Treaty of Turkmenchay. Iran irrevocably cedes its last Caucasus territories comprising parts of the contemporary nation of Azerbaijan that were not ceded in 1813, as well as all of what is the ...
The Russian Empire established the Persian Cossack Brigade in 1879, a force which was led by Russian officers and served as a vehicle for influence in Iran. [35] [36] The brigade gave the Russian Empire influence over the modernization of the Qajar army. This was especially pronounced because the Persian monarchy's legitimacy was predicated on ...
The Cambridge History of Iran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 6. Print. Kazemzadeh, F.. "The Origin and Early Development of the Persian Cossack Brigade." American Slavic and East European Review 15 (1956): 351–363. Kazemzadeh, F.. "Iranian Relations with Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921." The Cambridge History of Iran. New ...
Russian and Iran share a complicated past, peppered with conflict, and even now tread a fine line between cooperation and mistrust. And yet, the war in Ukraine has pulled Moscow and Tehran closer.
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...
Russia and Iran signed a mutual defense and security cooperation pact on Jan. 17 — just days before President Trump’s inauguration. Both nations are primary opponents of the U.S., demonstrated ...