August 1941

The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs

Mohammad Gholi Majd

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780761859413
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Coming shortly after the British occupation of Iraq and the German invasion of Russia, the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran secured a vital route for supplies to Russia and assured British control of the oilfields. To save the Pahlavi regime, Reza Shah was replaced by his son and Iranians were given a "New Deal." The Allied occupation thus ushered in a brief period of democratic freedoms. Having described the rise of Reza Shah in a previous work, Majd completes the story by describing his downfall. The author has made an extensive search of the widely scattered U.S. diplomatic and military records and these are supplemented by reports in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Daily Tribune, as well as other press accounts. More than seventy years later, this interesting story has remained untold. August 1941 is the first detailed and documented account of the affair.

Table of contents

• Chapter One Introduction & Overview
• Chapter Two The Façade of “Modern Iran” on the Eve of World War II
• Chapter Three “A Review of the Joint British-Soviet Actions Against Iran”
• Chapter Four Iran’s Relations with the Great Powers at the Onset of World War II
• Chapter Five Impact of German Victories on the Western Front
• Chapter Six British Occupation of Iraq & German Invasion of Russia: Onset of Anglo-Soviet Pressure
• Chapter Seven The Anglo-Russian Ultimatum
• Chapter Eight British Diplomacy on the Invasion of Iran
• Chapter Nine Soviet Diplomacy on the Invasion of Iran
• Chapter Ten Iranian Appeals to Washington
• Chapter Eleven The Invasion of Iran: “The Eighty-Hour War”
• Chapter Twelve Developments in Tehran & Reza Shah’s Crumbling Rule
• Chapter Thirteen Change of Shahs & Military Occupation of Tehran
• Chapter Fourteen Political Developments in Tehran
• Chapter Fifteen A “New Deal”