Iran (Persia) Joins the Entente/Allies in World War I?
Iran (Persia) Joins the Entente/Allies in World War I?
What if Iran (Persia) would have entered World War I on the side of the Entente/Allies (due to its rivalry with the Ottoman Empire and due to its hope that Britain and/or Russia will become friendlier to Iran as a result of this)?
How much would Iran's (Persia's) entry into the war on the Entente/Allies side have helped the Entente/Allies? Also, exactly which territories, if any, would Iran (Persia) have received after the Entente/Allies win World War I?
Any thoughts on this?
Also, it appears that having Iran (Persia) enter World War I on the side of the Allies was a very real possibility, as stated on pages 283-284 of this book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5Hz ... &q&f=false
How much would Iran's (Persia's) entry into the war on the Entente/Allies side have helped the Entente/Allies? Also, exactly which territories, if any, would Iran (Persia) have received after the Entente/Allies win World War I?
Any thoughts on this?
Also, it appears that having Iran (Persia) enter World War I on the side of the Allies was a very real possibility, as stated on pages 283-284 of this book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6k5Hz ... &q&f=false
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I don't think Iran/Persia entering the war on the Allied side would have done the Allies much good. The country was a failed state to put it mildly.
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Couldn't Iran/Persia have acquired some war spoils after the end of World War I in this scenario, though?James A Pratt III wrote:I don't think Iran/Persia entering the war on the Allied side would have done the Allies much good. The country was a failed state to put it mildly.
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Iran's Qajar rulers would have fought a war with the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia in early 1915 in the event of the Ottoman Empire making preparations for the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides, and they would have sent mercenaries to arm Shi'ite Arabs in present-day Iraq and free Mesopotamia from Ottoman control.
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Persia did not avoid the First World War, The war came to them. The British decision to convert their navy to oil fuel raised the strategic importance of oil extracted by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company - now known as BP. The British occupied South Persia and raised the South Persia Rifles to defend it.
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Re: Iran (Persia) Joins the Entente/Allies in World War I?
and the Russian Army intervened also in Persia,
even before WWI there were Russian cadres who trained a Cossak Brigade of the Persian Army raised in 1879
even before WWI there were Russian cadres who trained a Cossak Brigade of the Persian Army raised in 1879