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

About this episode

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…

People in this episode

Host: Justin Podur

Topics covered

• Iran
• colonialism
• British history
• 20th century politics
• Middle Eastern history

Keywords

• Iran
• British occupation
• Anglo-Persian Agreement
• Qajjar Shahs
• Constitutional Revolution
• colonialism
• WWI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: British

Places: Iran, Qajjar Shahs

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