Hope you all enjoy the episode! For the curious in the comments, I had a native Farsi speaker help me with the pronunciation. So hopefully not too far off the mark!
I have an old special Archives of early 1914s to 1925 of Iran as well i can share it with you. These footages are so rare. Tooken by none iranain officers such as Swedish Gendarmes also its interesting to see Iranian national army of Qajar which exactly looked like Austrian former Empire
I'm a Persian immigrant in Australia. I never heard before in my life such a detailed history of events of this period of Persia. Thank you very much. It was a joy to watch. Please make more videos and cover the period between the 1921 coup and the 1953 coup as well.
Check out the “The Iran Crisis and history of foreign involvement in Tabriz”, it covers Iran from 1903 up through the Iran Crisis of 1946 and ends with Mossadegh taking power, that video is on the Wayback history channel
Support us and get 40% off Nebula: go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war
The Kronstadt Rebellion was a turning point of the Russian Civil War and the entire extremist phase of the Russian Revolution. It led to the New Economic Policy.
Jessie really does a great job of pronouncing names and places. I am English and do try to pronounce non English names correctly, although Gaelic and Welsh are almost impossible for me at times 😊. Thanks for another great video on a topic many aren’t aware of 👍
Iranian writer Ali Shariati once wrote: "A real intellectual is one who knows his society, is aware of it's problems, can determine it's fate, is knowledgeable about it's past and who can decide for himself. These quasi-intellectuals, however, succeeded in influencing the people"
Persian/Iranian history is a curious thing. For roughly 2000 years, it was a series of large and power empires, periodically toppled by more powerful invaders (Alexander the Great, the Abbasid Caliphate, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane). Then for the last few hundred years it's been a sizeable but relatively weak state, with several revolutions over the last century or so, none of which have really helped the country in the long run.
China went through a similar "bad spell" from the early 19th to mid-20th Century. And Persia has had bad times before, as you stated, but always eventually recovered it's place as at least a regional power player.
There is an excellent old book written by an Oxford graduate/oil executive, Stephen Longrigg. The book is "Oil In The Middle East", published in 1954. Longrigg was in the Middle East during the 1930s through the late 1940s. The book is out of print and it might be a tad expensive, but it's worth the money.
Clearly "free speech" isn't a concept appreciated by UA-cam. Like so much of the internet, a fantastic concept in theory but still controlled by biased people.
@@Chilly_Billy yay people that think for themselves! It's so annoying when people try to say the media is just "defending people's rights" It's like one of those weird plot's in a movie where the villain is defending people's rights by eliminating their rights.
Yup! Even down to the everyday user such as myself hence the aka: Captain Jack I've had a big target on my back for some time by them, it's 🇺🇸! I was among the first ad-tewb cancel culture tyrannical purge that occured directly after the Harris/ Biden Junta came officially but not Constitutionally into power. Ask Ad-Tewb in their Feedback if this rings a bell to them, then see what happens to your channel! "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."- Benjamin Franklin Here's the whole paragraph of Franklin's which few here share but to which is paramount to our survival as the 🇺🇸 Republic. "Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors."- Benjamin Franklin
The great game is still going on it’s just the players changed over time. Once it was Russia and the UK, then Russia and the US now it’s shifting again to the US and China with Russia still involved but less prominent with a rising China. Where there’s oil, there’s money and where there’s money there’s a battle for control.
The stupid thing about my country being there, The US, is that we didn't even want to be there in the first place. It was the British, after losing their oil, that pushed the US into the great game by crying communism. Now the US is stuck there and the only ones who want to remain involved in this are the elite and those who foolishly believe that we can still make nation building work. While I may not agree with the current government there I don't think we should continue trying to crush them since all it does is drive them further into the Chinese sphere of influence.
@@Nostripe361 it was George Bush Jnr who got the Brits involved in the ME in the 90's by influencing the muppet Blair and pretending that Britain was still a global power. When Bush couldn't get a UN mandate he said he wouldn't go in to Iraq without Britains involvement.
@@vonsprague7913 I'm not talking about Iraq. That is an entire different situation that did involve the US pushing Britain into something they didn't want to be involved in. I mean the reason the CIA got involved in overthrowing the Iranian government and putting the Shah in power but in the Cold War was because the government in question kicked out the British Oil companies and nationalized the oil fields. This was around the time of the Suez Crisis so before Britain began to realize its empire had completely collapse.
@@Nostripe361 no during the 50's and 60's the US fearing an escalation of the cold War refused to back any play by Britain or France in the Middle East and after '65 had it's hands full in Vietnam. America only got involved after 1979 when Carter sent in US Marines in the disastrous raid to rescue the embassy hostages and the US was taking on it's role of world police. The agenda then became limiting an up surge in Islamic fundamentalism and ensuring continued oil supplies. The US never allowed Britain to influence policy, quite the opposite actually.
A murder mystery in 1921 Tehran investigated by a Swedish police officer ducking for cover from a Cossack coup d'etat would make interesting Scandi noir crime movie.
This episode makes me want to revisit the book "Persepolis" again, I believe the main character's grandmother actually lives through this coup as a young girl in it
Persepolis is really a fantastic story. Hammers home the realities of ordinary people living under oppressive regimes and through times of war. Highly recommended, though it mostly deals with the 1979 revolutions and the ensuing war with Iraq.
@@Oxtocoatl13 Persepolis is also full biased BS parroted by a Qajar degenerate offspring (Marjan Satrapi). Especially the part about Reza Shah and the cinéma Rex fire
I thoroughly enjoyed 16 days in Berlin, thank you it was very informative and contained some of the best UA-cam channels around eg Forgotten weapons (Ian) and the Tank Museum (David) as well as others. Recommended 👍
I have been following your coverage of the inter-war conflicts with great interest. It boggles my mind that this was all happening at the same time. The world was truly in upheaval.
It's great to see you cover these parts of history! BTW there is a great deal of discrepancy on the number of great Persian famine deaths, where did you got this number? I wasn't able to find a reliable source for it in the past
It has been overblown in various accounts, they went with the most conservative and the most accepted number, though some even argue the number is in the milions.
It's doubtful Mark Twain ever said that History doesn't repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes. However, an interesting game would be to take the events in this video, strip out the dates and proper names, and then decide the decade from the 1940s to the 1980s when the event happened. In some cases there would be more than one correct answer.
You must be very proud, and certainly ought to be so,..Jesse, Flo, and the entire team,..to receive such laudatory and grateful remarks from quite a few Iranians.
Yeah, basically, at the time, many "developping nations" (a bit anachronistic, but by that I mean coherent, yet non industrialized states like Turkey, China, Iran, Ethiopia, Siam...) needed western experts to form local personnel in various domains, from education to industry and the military. Thing was, asking a foreign power to help in the modernization was always a risk, it meant giving them a wide influence on the country (yep, if most of your high ranked officers are from another nation, well, this other nation virtually controls your army). So, countries like Iran had to "balance" the games of influence by asking different nations to provide help. The Russians trained their Cosacks, the French their navy, the Germans and Americans built railroads, the Italians sent doctors....that way, you avoid to rely solely on one nation. And in that regard, Sweden was kinda the perfect choice. It was european and indutralized, meaning they had the expertise, but also pacifist and, anyway, not a serious military power. Sweden, unlike Russia, the UK or France, could never really dominate Persia, hence, it was a reliable business parter, the only one not actually trying to eat your country. So, the Gendarmerie (which had a key role, as it was keeping order in Teheran, thus protecting the Shah) was mainly led by Swedes.
I think I might break my credit card out of mothballs and sign up for curiosity stream. Finally watch 16 Days in Berlin after giving you guys some money to make that series.
During that time Iranian kings officials and gov wanted to reduce power and tensions of UK and Russia. So they invited other European powers into Iranian politics. They invited Swedes for Creating modernized Police or Gendarmes the true heroes of Iran and true nationalist people were in there. Its known as most loyal people to the peoplr and country. Also they were Pro German and Pro Ottomans during WWI. Also gov invided Belgium to take the econimic of the country and our king made a deal with Leopold the II. Then our king invited France for high techs and eduction of the Time so our school system was made by French system and its still the same almost equal to france until today. ( still knowing fench known as presitigious and scientific in Iran). They invited Austerian Empire for creating the national Army and arsenal making. ( no wonder why national army was weak lol ) then they invited Germans for creating Infostructures and enginearings such as Telegraph cables , Roads and .....
Belive it or not our Kings were seeing USA as a game changer country and they piredicted soon it will be a super power due to its freedome and industries ( as called as Yenge donya or Amerik means New World or America). I have seen such old texts from officials of that time. So they invite US to Iran as well. But since its famous doctorine of US in that time they didnt involve their self into the Great game between UK and Russia. So they just brought Missioneries into Iran and created modern Hospitals or highschool. And even during revoultion of 1905 of Persia , an American freedome fighter was killed by Gov which until now hes known as American Iranian Hero and myrter in Iran. His name was Buskerewill
@@Blazo_Djurovic well my city wasnt part of Russian iran. My city Kerman was center of Iranian British Part and they had their own army of South Persia Rifle which was enemy of Cossacks
This program is surprisingly accurate. It escapes over the constitutional war and the Br-Russian ultimatum that closed the Majlis in 1911 and how a centralized Iran fit into British plans for the Middle East. The same concerns drove the American interests in overthrowing PM Mossadegh in 1953. All in all, thank you for a job well done.
Thank you for shining light on such an important issue. My country continues to be a pawn in the games of the superpowers. The Iranian people only want peace, development, and to share their vibrant culture. The heart of the Iranian people is huge. We hate our regime too but please do not bomb us. They are not evil, they are not terrorists. We are victims of empire games. Let us live. Also eff that demonetization, ill go to Nebula
Its almost insane that we have the saudis as main "allies" in the middle east and not Iran... Iran is freaking awsome with its culture and history. Hope the future will put an end to these fake hostilites between us.
I'm an Iranian who studied history for myself from different aspects and contradiciting resources. Reza Khan here (who later became Reza Shah) was a true patriot and the founder and saviour of modern day Iran. Without him, there would be no Iran as large and diverse as it is today. RIP Reza Shah
Man, it's impossible to study this period without running into Edmund Ironside. Russia, Turkey, or Iran, it looks like wherever a state began to fall apart after WWI he was the man they chose to safeguard British interests. This despite the fact that the British were soundly kicked out of Russia, Turkey and Iran.
Being crossroad of Middleeast , having wealth such as Oil and Mines and living with different ethnicties religion cultures , will make it like this 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
But at the same time they are the cultural version of Afghanistan. Greek,Arab,Mongol and Turkic invasions all influen.3ced Iran but it happened the other way around. Take Islam,Arab loanwords and Turkic rule as one such influence and in turn Persian cultural influence on the Arab world,and Persian culture traveling alongside Islam to India by Persianate Turks. Iran always rises out from the Ashes, like Anatolia it will perhaps forever stay in a unescaple cycle of weaker Irans followed by much stronger regional power Irans
@@dogeofgreatness2222 the truth bout such countries you mentioned like Afghanistan, they even didnt exist. They were created by Clonialism and the Great game. Persia , Afghanistan , Baluchistan and ( west) Turkistan. Stsrted to show up on 19th centuries maps. If you go back in the times like 18th century or 17th all of these lands used to be known as Persia ( which was mistaken name of Iran by the europeans since persia was just a state ). The 1st Pashtun ( Afghan ) who even created a sunni muslin revoultion against Shia Safavids , Mirwais khan Hotak , they didnt call him as founder of Afghanistan or any title like that, infact Europeans of the time called him freedome fighter and Oliver Cromwell of Persia. So yeap the Great Game created new fake countries :)) bout our refrence for being Iranian is from Persian Sassanid Empire so persian , Afghan , baluchi and .... all are iranian
The British empire:chooses a Persian fearless military officer to become her agent in Persia Meanwhile, Reza:commences a coup and takes the throne later The British: did not expect that reaction, but that's okay
And eventually they kicked him out since he made friendship with Hitler during 1940s As churchil said we brought him to thorne our selves and we kicked him out our selves
@@Biggocat for you it might be a meme but for me or any others its our everydays life and we have been effected by these events. Mother of my Great Grandfather was killed by Rezashah ( this guy) as she was a Turkish Tribal Chief. We started to Speak Persian by this Guy instea of Our Afshari Turkish. So yeah it sounds like a meme for you but for US its not meme we are living with wounds of the past
Even though it's more than 100 years ago, the Tobacco Rebellion and Bast, when Persian women threw their water pipes out of the windows of the andarunha/harems when the British took a monopoly on Persian tobacco.
Reza Shah came to power when Iran was a chaotic country right from the middle ages and when he was taken down Iran was a somewhat industrilized nation that was on the track of becoming a normal country.
I didn't know about the Persian Cossacks. Kind of reminds me of the Circassian Presidential Guard in Jordan today (although I suspect it's really more of a Chechen Presidential Guard, as many are unable or unwilling to differentiate between the two).
Thanks for this informative episode. But it clearly misses many details. I think there are plenty of contents about history of Iran that has been neglected. By the way, it will be awesome if you provide original resources for us to study more
Curzon est si drôle!! Une réunion avec une seule personne.... Après un long débat, tout le monde a fini par être d'accord.... Hostie.... C'est trop drôle!
I have signed up to curiosity Stream hoping to fine the "The Persian Coup And The British Thirst For Oil I THE GREAT WAR 1921" but could not see in any of your collection. Eather I am missing something or your site is not pinning to the search. Please if you can provide a guide to this title to see in the collections. This part was the main reason I joint the Curiosity stream. Thanks \
@Kyle Byrne after revolution they changed all texts in history class for political reasons many of this words are different with what we learn at schools ( but there are many history books that keep our history rights )
Tell whoever is in charge of Nebula to add more features like playlists, recommended videos, new video notifications, and watched badges on videos. I have a subscription but it's so much easier to watch on youtube
Also i would like Mention these. one of Azerbaijani Officcer of swedish Gendarmes created State of Khorasan to fight against Reza Khan in name of Qajar king , Clonel Pasyan. 2ndly A Kurdish tribal cheif creates his country at west of Azerbaijan ( simitqu Shakak). An Arab iranian cheif created Arabistan country by help of UK named was Sheikh Khazal Kabbi. A member of Iranian Parliment of Majlis created 1st Republic of Azerbaijan of today Azerbaijan country ( not Iranian one ) , Mohamad Amin Rasulzade. Also pro Ottoman- German Nationalist created their own Gov at Kermanshah wiating to get help from Ottomans and Germans. And the last but least , Assyrian rebelions of Ottoman Empire invaded to Iranian azerbaijan known as Jeyluq , which caused ottoman invasion to Iran and massacare of Assyrians of Iran ( rebelion Assyrians were killing Azerbaijanis also ) and newly Repubulic of Armenia invaded Iranian Azerbaijan to fight against Ottomans as well. I wished you covered these too and i shared my pictures with you. Even now i can share them because they are so rare and nice. Just tell me how can i share them. For next episode bout persia.
Heeey thanks a lot for the video, I am half way through the video but had to stop and say the famine killed 9 to 11 million people, (source: British soldier memoirs) One reason amongst other was that the British gov’t forbade import from Iraq and India and kept the Persian corps for themselves. Same sources. So British gov’t definitely didn’t do anything to help the situation.
Ok so I finished the video and first off thank you so much for taking your time and creating such contents. However I see some misinformation going on here. As a Persian German, I must say your narrative sounds like the UK version of the story. For example sed Zia ( seyyed Zia) was a friend and puppet of UK, “Brits make their friends pay, but they destroy their enemy, so let’s pay them” quote from him. One source that I have found unbiased is “the shah” written by Abbas Milani.
You guys are really annoying me. I usually listen to UA-cam videos while doing other tasks, and often treat them as a sort of podcast. Your photographs are so vivid and interesting I can't do that. I feel compelled to watch the whole thing. So you are ruining my efficiency. Please continue to do so.
the fact that the British ended up exiling Reza Khan to Mauritius...not knowing that his own son will be exiled. It just breaks my heart to see what my country has gone through. Zan Zendegi Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom!
Most people don't want a detailed and objective version of history; they want a 'woke' version, full of distortions. You guys do a great job. I love Indy!
Oil is both a blessing and a curse. For the Middle East it was more like a curse. Maybe things would have been better for Iran if it had no oil, since the Iranians themselves gained nothing from having oil.
It was always Iran to its inhabitants i think? It may just be Persian language for our land or something similar. Externally people used Persia. I do know reign of reza shah he asked people to use Iran instead of Persia as a political statement
He still had russian support. We beat the cossaks and took Liakhov&tehran (their leader, bombarded the parliment) My kin imprisoned him so the rest wouldn't just kill him. He left iran and died in the Caucasus mountains i think.
Hope you all enjoy the episode! For the curious in the comments, I had a native Farsi speaker help me with the pronunciation. So hopefully not too far off the mark!
You're the best Jesse! Hope you make ottoman empire 1921 video
An insane amount of info in 22 minutes.
you did a great job thank u
Thank you very much. I grew up in Persia and the school history books never covered events with this level of details. I learned a lot.
I have an old special Archives of early 1914s to 1925 of Iran as well i can share it with you. These footages are so rare. Tooken by none iranain officers such as Swedish Gendarmes also its interesting to see Iranian national army of Qajar which exactly looked like Austrian former Empire
I'm a Persian immigrant in Australia. I never heard before in my life such a detailed history of events of this period of Persia. Thank you very much. It was a joy to watch. Please make more videos and cover the period between the 1921 coup and the 1953 coup as well.
Namaste from India 😤🙏🙏
Check out the “The Iran Crisis and history of foreign involvement in Tabriz”, it covers Iran from 1903 up through the Iran Crisis of 1946 and ends with Mossadegh taking power, that video is on the Wayback history channel
@@TheLocalLt Watched it, great suggestion, thank you
Support us and get 40% off Nebula: go.nebula.tv/the-great-war
Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war
Sign up for Curiosity Stream and get Nebula bundled in and SAVE 26%: curiositystream.com/thegreatwar
Awsome
The Kronstadt Rebellion was a turning point of the Russian Civil War and the entire extremist phase of the Russian Revolution. It led to the New Economic Policy.
Jessie really does a great job of pronouncing names and places. I am English and do try to pronounce non English names correctly, although Gaelic and Welsh are almost impossible for me at times 😊.
Thanks for another great video on a topic many aren’t aware of 👍
Yes yes! Every entry was quite exciting. I'll gladly keep watching!
Iranian writer Ali Shariati once wrote:
"A real intellectual is one who knows his society, is aware of it's problems, can determine it's fate, is knowledgeable about it's past and who can decide for himself. These quasi-intellectuals, however,
succeeded in influencing the people"
Love your channel, keep it up!
he was right.though ironically he himself was a quasi intellectual !
Yes, was waiting for ages for someone to cover this.
I did cover it last year though, on my chanel
Persian/Iranian history is a curious thing. For roughly 2000 years, it was a series of large and power empires, periodically toppled by more powerful invaders (Alexander the Great, the Abbasid Caliphate, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane). Then for the last few hundred years it's been a sizeable but relatively weak state, with several revolutions over the last century or so, none of which have really helped the country in the long run.
China went through a similar "bad spell" from the early 19th to mid-20th Century. And Persia has had bad times before, as you stated, but always eventually recovered it's place as at least a regional power player.
There is an excellent old book written by an Oxford graduate/oil executive, Stephen Longrigg. The book is "Oil In The Middle East", published in 1954. Longrigg was in the Middle East during the 1930s through the late 1940s. The book is out of print and it might be a tad expensive, but it's worth the money.
and J. Paul Getty was the worlds' first business billionaire in those times, and probably lived just down the way in England.
UA-cam is going after anyone. From history channels, to channels that does swords, heck even engineering and art channels.
Clearly "free speech" isn't a concept appreciated by UA-cam. Like so much of the internet, a fantastic concept in theory but still controlled by biased people.
@@Chilly_Billy yay people that think for themselves!
It's so annoying when people try to say the media is just "defending people's rights"
It's like one of those weird plot's in a movie where the villain is defending people's rights by eliminating their rights.
@@bibleboy1147 smol brain paternalist tend to be that way
Yup! Even down to the everyday user such as myself hence the aka: Captain Jack I've had a big target on my back for some time by them, it's 🇺🇸! I was among the first ad-tewb cancel culture tyrannical purge that occured directly after the Harris/ Biden Junta came officially but not Constitutionally into power.
Ask Ad-Tewb in their Feedback if this rings a bell to them, then see what happens to your channel! "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."- Benjamin Franklin
Here's the whole paragraph of Franklin's which few here share but to which is paramount to our survival as the 🇺🇸 Republic.
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors."- Benjamin Franklin
The great game is still going on it’s just the players changed over time. Once it was Russia and the UK, then Russia and the US now it’s shifting again to the US and China with Russia still involved but less prominent with a rising China.
Where there’s oil, there’s money and where there’s money there’s a battle for control.
The stupid thing about my country being there, The US, is that we didn't even want to be there in the first place. It was the British, after losing their oil, that pushed the US into the great game by crying communism. Now the US is stuck there and the only ones who want to remain involved in this are the elite and those who foolishly believe that we can still make nation building work. While I may not agree with the current government there I don't think we should continue trying to crush them since all it does is drive them further into the Chinese sphere of influence.
@@Nostripe361 it was George Bush Jnr who got the Brits involved in the ME in the 90's by influencing the muppet Blair and pretending that Britain was still a global power. When Bush couldn't get a UN mandate he said he wouldn't go in to Iraq without Britains involvement.
@@vonsprague7913 I'm not talking about Iraq. That is an entire different situation that did involve the US pushing Britain into something they didn't want to be involved in.
I mean the reason the CIA got involved in overthrowing the Iranian government and putting the Shah in power but in the Cold War was because the government in question kicked out the British Oil companies and nationalized the oil fields. This was around the time of the Suez Crisis so before Britain began to realize its empire had completely collapse.
@@Nostripe361 no during the 50's and 60's the US fearing an escalation of the cold War refused to back any play by Britain or France in the Middle East and after '65 had it's hands full in Vietnam. America only got involved after 1979 when Carter sent in US Marines in the disastrous raid to rescue the embassy hostages and the US was taking on it's role of world police. The agenda then became limiting an up surge in Islamic fundamentalism and ensuring continued oil supplies. The US never allowed Britain to influence policy, quite the opposite actually.
We don't need the oil though from other countries but the Democrat environuts in the White House have reversed that.
This was a great video on this topic, not too many people know this happened and how strongly it shaped Iran for decades to come and even to this day
A murder mystery in 1921 Tehran investigated by a Swedish police officer ducking for cover from a Cossack coup d'etat would make interesting Scandi noir crime movie.
Hmm, but how would they work in the scene where the protagonist looks pensive with the Øresund bridge in the background? Every Scandi noir needs that!
This episode makes me want to revisit the book "Persepolis" again, I believe the main character's grandmother actually lives through this coup as a young girl in it
it could be the 1953 coup too
Persepolis is really a fantastic story. Hammers home the realities of ordinary people living under oppressive regimes and through times of war. Highly recommended, though it mostly deals with the 1979 revolutions and the ensuing war with Iraq.
@@TheGreatWar Yeah, I think you're right
@@Oxtocoatl13 Persepolis is also full biased BS parroted by a Qajar degenerate offspring (Marjan Satrapi). Especially the part about Reza Shah and the cinéma Rex fire
"persepolis" story is actually based in 79 revolution
I thoroughly enjoyed 16 days in Berlin, thank you it was very informative and contained some of the best UA-cam channels around eg Forgotten weapons (Ian) and the Tank Museum (David) as well as others.
Recommended 👍
“Thirst for oil.”
* looks at the USA *
Like father like son.
Except now that environuts are in charge of the White House.
Russia did the same, lol
I have been following your coverage of the inter-war conflicts with great interest. It boggles my mind that this was all happening at the same time. The world was truly in upheaval.
The colonizers fight for the 3rd world's natural resources
It's great to see you cover these parts of history!
BTW there is a great deal of discrepancy on the number of great Persian famine deaths, where did you got this number? I wasn't able to find a reliable source for it in the past
It has been overblown in various accounts, they went with the most conservative and the most accepted number, though some even argue the number is in the milions.
It's doubtful Mark Twain ever said that History doesn't repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes. However, an interesting game would be to take the events in this video, strip out the dates and proper names, and then decide the decade from the 1940s to the 1980s when the event happened. In some cases there would be more than one correct answer.
So technically, Reza Shah used the British ...to make Iran anti-British?!
Now that's a pro gamer move.
GG Reza(Shah)
You tube admins "You want the truth?! You can't handle the truth! "
@Mars Attacks very pathetic.
@Niek Vels When corporate executives that have been deregulating Wall Street for decades are "neo-marxists".
I doubt UA-cams ad policies have much to do with politics. Rather, they want "safe" content that can't possibly offend any of their advertisers.
8:24
Actually, the famine killed around 9 million people, which was equal to about half of the country's population.
A famine that kills 50% of a nation will destroy it. 100 000 dead from a famine is still massive and will alone have massive consequenses
Reza Shah Pahlavi overthrows Qajar Dynasty and creates the legendary Pahlavi Dynasty, only to be overthrown by Clerics.
Dude stop giving me spoilers
That still hurts me. Iran and iraq were gems of middle east even though Saddam was dictator now both are struggling along with syria.
@@ShubhamMishrabro And the elites of both countries get filthy rich at the expense of everyone else.
You must be very proud, and certainly ought to be so,..Jesse, Flo, and the entire team,..to receive such laudatory and grateful remarks from quite a few Iranians.
"The local police, which was made up mainly of Swedish officers?"
WHAT?
Fear the interwar Swedish iranian empire
Yeah, basically, at the time, many "developping nations" (a bit anachronistic, but by that I mean coherent, yet non industrialized states like Turkey, China, Iran, Ethiopia, Siam...) needed western experts to form local personnel in various domains, from education to industry and the military.
Thing was, asking a foreign power to help in the modernization was always a risk, it meant giving them a wide influence on the country (yep, if most of your high ranked officers are from another nation, well, this other nation virtually controls your army). So, countries like Iran had to "balance" the games of influence by asking different nations to provide help. The Russians trained their Cosacks, the French their navy, the Germans and Americans built railroads, the Italians sent doctors....that way, you avoid to rely solely on one nation.
And in that regard, Sweden was kinda the perfect choice. It was european and indutralized, meaning they had the expertise, but also pacifist and, anyway, not a serious military power. Sweden, unlike Russia, the UK or France, could never really dominate Persia, hence, it was a reliable business parter, the only one not actually trying to eat your country. So, the Gendarmerie (which had a key role, as it was keeping order in Teheran, thus protecting the Shah) was mainly led by Swedes.
I think I might break my credit card out of mothballs and sign up for curiosity stream. Finally watch 16 Days in Berlin after giving you guys some money to make that series.
This channel just gets more and more interesting
Thanks!
Love the little coup bit finishing the video big thumbs up
I actually made a video on the events leading to the 1921 coup d'etat, it's called Iran & Western Democracy, you can find it on my chanel.
I also heard you Persians support UK against India.
Swedish officers in Iran? Thats the first! p.s. I have the same windows :-D
Sweedish cops, Iranian Russian Cossack Army plus influences of Russia and UK...
That's a funky mix...
During that time Iranian kings officials and gov wanted to reduce power and tensions of UK and Russia. So they invited other European powers into Iranian politics.
They invited Swedes for Creating modernized Police or Gendarmes the true heroes of Iran and true nationalist people were in there. Its known as most loyal people to the peoplr and country. Also they were Pro German and Pro Ottomans during WWI.
Also gov invided Belgium to take the econimic of the country and our king made a deal with Leopold the II.
Then our king invited France for high techs and eduction of the Time so our school system was made by French system and its still the same almost equal to france until today. ( still knowing fench known as presitigious and scientific in Iran). They invited Austerian Empire for creating the national Army and arsenal making. ( no wonder why national army was weak lol ) then they invited Germans for creating Infostructures and enginearings such as Telegraph cables , Roads and .....
Belive it or not our Kings were seeing USA as a game changer country and they piredicted soon it will be a super power due to its freedome and industries ( as called as Yenge donya or Amerik means New World or America). I have seen such old texts from officials of that time. So they invite US to Iran as well. But since its famous doctorine of US in that time they didnt involve their self into the Great game between UK and Russia. So they just brought Missioneries into Iran and created modern Hospitals or highschool. And even during revoultion of 1905 of Persia , an American freedome fighter was killed by Gov which until now hes known as American Iranian Hero and myrter in Iran. His name was Buskerewill
@@Blazo_Djurovic well my city wasnt part of Russian iran. My city Kerman was center of Iranian British Part and they had their own army of South Persia Rifle which was enemy of Cossacks
@@sinaaafshar4154 Thanks for info, I didnt know that so many countries got involved in iran in that time :-)
Long live pahlavi long live prince reza pahlavi.Reza shah the great saved iran.I love Reza shah😍
This program is surprisingly accurate. It escapes over the constitutional war and the Br-Russian ultimatum that closed the Majlis in 1911 and how a centralized Iran fit into British plans for the Middle East. The same concerns drove the American interests in overthrowing PM Mossadegh in 1953. All in all, thank you for a job well done.
I really, really enjoyed this video. Modern Iranian history is usually overlooked.
Great episode.
Thank you for covering this topic
Well done. Thank you.
Tbh I wouldn't mind a whole interview period series, right up until September 1939.
And in 20 years the British and Soviets will return
2 years mate
I don't often see this history presented objectively. Well done.
In a committee of one, the committee always agrees with the chairman.
Thank you for shining light on such an important issue. My country continues to be a pawn in the games of the superpowers. The Iranian people only want peace, development, and to share their vibrant culture. The heart of the Iranian people is huge. We hate our regime too but please do not bomb us. They are not evil, they are not terrorists. We are victims of empire games. Let us live. Also eff that demonetization, ill go to Nebula
Its almost insane that we have the saudis as main "allies" in the middle east and not Iran... Iran is freaking awsome with its culture and history. Hope the future will put an end to these fake hostilites between us.
This is exactly what our ancestors asked of Genghis when he invaded, brother. What do you think his answer was?
I wonder when are they going to be able to return to the studio
Well done . Thanks .
I'm an Iranian who studied history for myself from different aspects and contradiciting resources. Reza Khan here (who later became Reza Shah) was a true patriot and the founder and saviour of modern day Iran. Without him, there would be no Iran as large and diverse as it is today. RIP Reza Shah
Amen to that! Rip Reza Shah
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Man, it's impossible to study this period without running into Edmund Ironside. Russia, Turkey, or Iran, it looks like wherever a state began to fall apart after WWI he was the man they chose to safeguard British interests. This despite the fact that the British were soundly kicked out of Russia, Turkey and Iran.
Things are going to really get interesting when this channel makes a video in the 2040's.
If you're referring to World War II, there is already one hosted by Indy Neidell
@@mbathroom1 ya I've seen them but 2045 will be particularly important.
@@scottywills124 that'll be in 2024
Hmm i suspect a time travler among us
10:37 The man in the far right of the picture looks very much like the future King George VI of Great Britain
Persians always seem to be exploited by many of the stronger nations in the world. How unfortunate. Great video.
Being crossroad of Middleeast , having wealth such as Oil and Mines and living with different ethnicties religion cultures , will make it like this 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@sinaaafshar4154---Regrettable. But true.
But at the same time they are the cultural version of Afghanistan. Greek,Arab,Mongol and Turkic invasions all influen.3ced Iran but it happened the other way around. Take Islam,Arab loanwords and Turkic rule as one such influence and in turn Persian cultural influence on the Arab world,and Persian culture traveling alongside Islam to India by Persianate Turks. Iran always rises out from the Ashes, like Anatolia it will perhaps forever stay in a unescaple cycle of weaker Irans followed by much stronger regional power Irans
@@dogeofgreatness2222 the truth bout such countries you mentioned like Afghanistan, they even didnt exist. They were created by Clonialism and the Great game. Persia , Afghanistan , Baluchistan and ( west) Turkistan. Stsrted to show up on 19th centuries maps. If you go back in the times like 18th century or 17th all of these lands used to be known as Persia ( which was mistaken name of Iran by the europeans since persia was just a state ). The 1st Pashtun ( Afghan ) who even created a sunni muslin revoultion against Shia Safavids , Mirwais khan Hotak , they didnt call him as founder of Afghanistan or any title like that, infact Europeans of the time called him freedome fighter and Oliver Cromwell of Persia. So yeap the Great Game created new fake countries :)) bout our refrence for being Iranian is from Persian Sassanid Empire so persian , Afghan , baluchi and .... all are iranian
Persia was the exploiter in the ancient world. Nothing has changed. The strong will exploit the weak.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
thank you for upload.
Thank you.
7:33 The famine killed 2 million Iranians, not 100 thousand.
Is chagrin the word of the month or something? I've been seeing it everywhere
The British empire:chooses a Persian fearless military officer to become her agent in Persia
Meanwhile, Reza:commences a coup and takes the throne later
The British: did not expect that reaction, but that's okay
The new Soviet Union: "You weren't supposed to do that!"
And eventually they kicked him out since he made friendship with Hitler during 1940s
As churchil said we brought him to thorne our selves and we kicked him out our selves
@@sinaaafshar4154 Are you capable of understanding memes, old fellow?
@@Biggocat for you it might be a meme but for me or any others its our everydays life and we have been effected by these events. Mother of my Great Grandfather was killed by Rezashah ( this guy) as she was a Turkish Tribal Chief. We started to Speak Persian by this Guy instea of Our Afshari Turkish. So yeah it sounds like a meme for you but for US its not meme we are living with wounds of the past
@@sinaaafshar4154 perhaps because she was rebeling against the central power
Hello Jesse Alexander. I am wondering of curiosity if you one day could talk about what kind of books you have in your bookshelf?
Even though it's more than 100 years ago, the Tobacco Rebellion and Bast, when Persian women threw their water pipes out of the windows of the andarunha/harems when the British took a monopoly on Persian tobacco.
Reza Shah came to power when Iran was a chaotic country right from the middle ages and when he was taken down Iran was a somewhat industrilized nation that was on the track of becoming a normal country.
Really well done.
German Lawrance of Arabia? Lol I never herad of that. Great video
I didn't know about the Persian Cossacks. Kind of reminds me of the Circassian Presidential Guard in Jordan today (although I suspect it's really more of a Chechen Presidential Guard, as many are unable or unwilling to differentiate between the two).
Reza Pahlavi is the father of modern Iran
Persia's 19th and early 20th century history is fascinating!
In Greece when we want to say that someone can speak a language extremely well, we say" He speaks French like Farsi".
@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt wha-?
Most of us Iranians hate 19th and 20th century in our country because it was wrost century for us
Gotta comment for the algorithm 👍
Thanks for this informative episode. But it clearly misses many details. I think there are plenty of contents about history of Iran that has been neglected.
By the way, it will be awesome if you provide original resources for us to study more
excellent content
Damn. I stuffed up when I joined Curiosity Stream and haven't got access to Nebula.
I never watch it, lol.
Curzon est si drôle!! Une réunion avec une seule personne....
Après un long débat, tout le monde a fini par être d'accord.... Hostie.... C'est trop drôle!
I have signed up to curiosity Stream hoping to fine the "The Persian Coup And The British Thirst For Oil I THE GREAT WAR 1921" but could not see in any of your collection. Eather I am missing something or your site is not pinning to the search. Please if you can provide a guide to this title to see in the collections. This part was the main reason I joint the Curiosity stream. Thanks
\
nice summary...Patreon supporter
Thanks!
Great video, Thanks, I only learned lies in history class in Iran, this is very educational.
@Kyle Byrne after revolution they changed all texts in history class for political reasons many of this words are different with what we learn at schools ( but there are many history books that keep our history rights )
Which was repeated a little over 30 years later with Operation Ajax
Tell whoever is in charge of Nebula to add more features like playlists, recommended videos, new video notifications, and watched badges on videos. I have a subscription but it's so much easier to watch on youtube
Excellent history 👏
Also i would like Mention these. one of Azerbaijani Officcer of swedish Gendarmes created State of Khorasan to fight against Reza Khan in name of Qajar king , Clonel Pasyan. 2ndly A Kurdish tribal cheif creates his country at west of Azerbaijan ( simitqu Shakak). An Arab iranian cheif created Arabistan country by help of UK named was Sheikh Khazal Kabbi. A member of Iranian Parliment of Majlis created 1st Republic of Azerbaijan of today Azerbaijan country ( not Iranian one ) , Mohamad Amin Rasulzade. Also pro Ottoman- German Nationalist created their own Gov at Kermanshah wiating to get help from Ottomans and Germans. And the last but least , Assyrian rebelions of Ottoman Empire invaded to Iranian azerbaijan known as Jeyluq , which caused ottoman invasion to Iran and massacare of Assyrians of Iran ( rebelion Assyrians were killing Azerbaijanis also ) and newly Repubulic of Armenia invaded Iranian Azerbaijan to fight against Ottomans as well.
I wished you covered these too and i shared my pictures with you.
Even now i can share them because they are so rare and nice. Just tell me how can i share them. For next episode bout persia.
Are Edmund Ironside and Viking King Björn Järnsida related?
the nebula have subtitles?
"Война Теней" does not translate to "The Shadow War", exactly. That'd be "Теневая Война"
More accurate translation would be "The War of Shadows".
Теневая Война would be "shadowy war." A compound noun like Shadow War is a good way to avoid the clunky "of" translation of the genitive case.
@@jessealexander2695 Shadowy is more "Тенистая" than "Теневая"
@@Self-replicating_whatnot Good point. I still prefer compound nouns to "of" all over the place though!
Heeey thanks a lot for the video,
I am half way through the video but had to stop and say the famine killed 9 to 11 million people, (source: British soldier memoirs)
One reason amongst other was that the British gov’t forbade import from Iraq and India and kept the Persian corps for themselves. Same sources.
So British gov’t definitely didn’t do anything to help the situation.
Ok so I finished the video and first off thank you so much for taking your time and creating such contents.
However I see some misinformation going on here. As a Persian German, I must say your narrative sounds like the UK version of the story.
For example sed Zia ( seyyed Zia) was a friend and puppet of UK, “Brits make their friends pay, but they destroy their enemy, so let’s pay them” quote from him.
One source that I have found unbiased is “the shah” written by Abbas Milani.
4:43
Can you
IMAGINE
if you forgot your puffy hat that day😳
I want one!
In 8:25 You say 100k died in famine! However some Iranian historians put it in 1-3millions, and even some say 9 million!
What is your source for 100k?
Liked and shared.
You guys are really annoying me. I usually listen to UA-cam videos while doing other tasks, and often treat them as a sort of podcast. Your photographs are so vivid and interesting I can't do that. I feel compelled to watch the whole thing. So you are ruining my efficiency. Please continue to do so.
We'll do our best!
@@jessealexander2695 man don't stop non European affairs. Continue India video
Many thanks for this short documentary on this period of Iran. Indeed, this period is not often covered by westerners.
too nice historical video about early years of nineteenth century in Persian Country
very nice
When will you cover Japan, China and Yugoslavia?
5:31 500 IQ move right there.
This resource is valuable for anyone. So I know what happened next.
Detective Ironside?
the fact that the British ended up exiling Reza Khan to Mauritius...not knowing that his own son will be exiled. It just breaks my heart to see what my country has gone through. Zan Zendegi Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom!
I don't see any ads on the video :+(
Most people don't want a detailed and objective version of history; they want a 'woke' version, full of distortions. You guys do a great job. I love Indy!
Oil is both a blessing and a curse. For the Middle East it was more like a curse. Maybe things would have been better for Iran if it had no oil, since the Iranians themselves gained nothing from having oil.
As someone who has it hard to post secondary education due to financial concerns I find demonizing educational content very insulting.
I’m confused about the name do we call it Persia or Iran?
If you want to talk pre 1930 call it Persia, after that it is Iran.
@@marzbanofmerv2324 I’m confused why Persia renamed it self Iran?
Some people who come from Iran, still call it Persia
Iran(g) them, they’re Pers-istant in using both. :p
It was always Iran to its inhabitants i think? It may just be Persian language for our land or something similar. Externally people used Persia. I do know reign of reza shah he asked people to use Iran instead of Persia as a political statement
This informative video has caused a coup d'etat in my small living room - my cat has taken power of me and the couch! Please send help!
@Mars Attacks How could we have been so blind all the time? The hamsters and the cats have plotted world domination since day one!
exactly - the joint Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1942
More videos on Iran please.
He still had russian support.
We beat the cossaks and took Liakhov&tehran (their leader, bombarded the parliment)
My kin imprisoned him so the rest wouldn't just kill him.
He left iran and died in the Caucasus mountains i think.
And it is understandable through history why Iran today is like Iran is today. And the game goes on.
4:50 Persians: By Allah, behave yourselves! We will give you a taste of our shoes!
I'm waiting for the Vietnam War. I'll just figure out time travel instead.