Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919

Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919

February 23, 2026 · 2h 5m

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This episode discusses Iran's struggles against British colonial ambitions and the implications of the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919.

Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar Shahs, the British occupation during WWI, and the British imposition of the hated Anglo-Persian agreement of 1919, which no Iranian government can survive…

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