The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union …

Iran's new anti-American stance presented the USSR with a golden opportunity to win the country over to the Soviet camp. But the war between Iraq and Iran complicated matters.

Nov 13, 2009 · In conclusion to an extremely tense situation of the early Cold War, the Soviet Union announces that its troops in Iran will be withdrawn within six weeks. The Iranian crisis …

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the USSR, we are now beginning to examine Iran’s relations with the Soviet Union and the broader Communist …

The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan crisis (Persian: غائلهٔ آذربایجان, romanized: Qā'ele-ye Āzarbāyejān) in Iranian sources, was one of the first crises of the Cold War, sparked …

The USSR joined the UK and US in the 1943 Teheran Declaration affirming Iran's independence. When World War II ended the Soviets withdrew only token units and sponsored rebellious …

May 6, 2005 · British and Soviet troops invaded Iran on 25 August 1941. At the time, and for many years afterward, the main reason given for this was that German influence in Iran at the …

Jan 17, 2025 · In World War II, the Soviet Union and Britain invaded Iran, which still evokes painful memories in Tehran. Tensions ran high in the Cold War, when Tehran was a U.S. ally …

Iran indicate that the Soviet-Iran relations in the post-First World War era were uneasy and unequal and that Moscow at times interfered and prevailed upon the latter by exerting …

Nov 6, 2019 · New evidence, presented in this article, allows us to see the Soviet policies in Iran, in confrontation with U.S. and British policies, as a continuum, not a set of episodes, and …