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During World War Two, the Soviets and British occupied Iran so they can trade, get oil for the war effort, and also to end the leadership of the current Iranian leader at that time which was Axis leaning both states promised to leave Iran after World War Two but on November of 1945, the Soviet...

What would have happened to the Soviet Union had they not been able to retake Armenia AND Azerbaijan and consecutively WW2 and then the Cold War ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828) Following more than a decade of military reform, spearheaded by crown prince Abbas Mirza, and a minor but victorious border war against the Ottoman Empire, the Qajar dynasty attempted to reconquer the territories it lost to the...

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar was the first member of the Qajar dynasty to rule Iran, reunifying a country which had been torn apart by countless civil wars ever since the death of Karim Khan Zand in 1779. A brilliant but brutal conqueror, he reasserted Iranian authority over northern Azerbaijan and...

What if the following depression was flooded by building a dam to block the Aras river? Geographically the aras river flow trought a 10 km wide choke point. You can use the mountains and build a series of 2 km, 1 km, 2 km and 1 km dam to cut the flow of water and create a lake. There is...

In OTL the second karabakh war started on september 27th 2020 and resulted in an azerbaijani victory. How would things change if the Second Karabakh War started in 2016? Who would win and how would the peace treaty look like resulting from the the 2016 Second Karabakh War? Discuss and Post Maps...

Edit, to avoid confusion... POD for these yearly memorial days (whether observed or not)... Greece – some time after joining NATO in 1952 Armenia – soon after independence So for this ASB-ish WI lets say some Christian nations memorialize THE ENTIRITY of their history regardless of what Turkey...

OTL : So for those who might not be familiar with the OTL Near East, the Armenian Dashnaks in 1914 decided to instigate a shock rebellion in Russian Armenia against Tsarist Russia, throwing their full weight behind a seemingly - at the time - absurd Ottoman proposal of 1914 that envisioned...

If Armenia extended the 1990s Karabakj War to nakhchivan and won what country would Nakhivan be apart of and why? Would it be directly integrated into armenia or join artsakh or become an independent armenian speaking unrecognised country?

So Turkey gains back the muslim majority (at the time) province of Batum (Adjara) and the soviets get to keep the province of Surmalinsky Uyezd (now Iğdır Province) with Mount Ararat sacred to armenians, the salt mines of Kulp (Tuzluca), and the Aras corridor (which connects Turkey with...

With the exceptions of the Ossetians (since they’re very far away), is it possible that a successful pan-Iranist state could emerge and unite the Iranian peoples into one single nation? What would be the name of this country? Does this also include the Azeris? And is it possible not to dissolve...

Alternate History Challenge Have Azerbaijan become part of Turkey following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. What kind of consequenes could Azerbaijan becoming part of Turkey have? (Butterflies) Pipeline Politics Turkish Irredentism in Iran and beyond Armenia (Perhaps Armenia would lose...

After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States binds the former Soviet Republics into an organization. In the aftermath of ww1, would such an organization for the peoples in Caucasus help stabilize the region? In the idea's implementation, the proposal for the...

I was watching a new episode from the Youtube The Great War series, which led me to this scenario. The Battle of Baku, right at the end of World War I's Caucasian Campaign, was a rather fierce engagement between the forces of the Ottoman Empire's Army of Islam on one side, and a coalition...

Papa Stalin got fooled into thinking Iran would deliver oil if he withdrew from Northern Iran. What would happen if he instead militarily protected People's Republic of Azerbaijan and Republic of Mohabad?

So, what was the possibility of the Soviet Union annexing the rest of Azerbaijan to the Azeri SSR after WW2, instead of just retreating from Iran and leaving it a western ally? And, stretching it a little more, was there any chance the Soviets would set up some kind of Iranian People's Republic...