Can Case Blue Be Successful

Iran/Persia in the WWII period had quite limited local heavy industry - the ability to produce heavy construction equipment, rails and other materials for rail expansion, locomotives, rail cars, etc was minimal to nil. Other than fuel to run vehicles, everything used to expand the infrastructure in Iran had to be imported, and step one was improving the infrastructure at Iranian ports to handle the increased traffic. To accelerate this you need to make that decision, redirect current manufactured goods from where they were going to Iran, and rearrange factory priorities to make that stuff instead of other stuff. You also need to direct manpower to Iran from other places to actually do this, engineering units are in high demand and taking recruits and training them to be useful in these units is longer than cranking out infantrymen. The minimal lag time between the Allies (basically the USA) making the decision to do this, and significant amounts of stuff and people arriving at an Iranian port is 4-6 months, producing results at any significant level double that time.

Now answer the question, with the stuff you are sending to Iran, units you are sending to Iran, and some factories that are producing for that effort instead of something else, what are you not doing?
 
The minimal lag time between the Allies (basically the USA) making the decision to do this, and significant amounts of stuff and people arriving at an Iranian port is 4-6 months, producing results at any significant level double that time.

Now answer the question, with the stuff you are sending to Iran, units you are sending to Iran, and some factories that are producing for that effort instead of something else, what are you not doing?

Operation Torch?
 
One other small thing is to expect the caucuses to be extremely welcoming of German rule. IOTL the Germans were fairly successful at raising units from there during the very briefest of occupations. Assuming they can keep their genocidal tendencies in check, and the people there are not slavs nor slated to be killed. They might be able to raise quite a few local units. It's not enough to turn the tide but it is a nice bonus for them and I don't see them having much trouble with the occupation.
 

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One other small thing is to expect the caucuses to be extremely welcoming of German rule. IOTL the Germans were fairly successful at raising units from there during the very briefest of occupations. Assuming they can keep their genocidal tendencies in check, and the people there are not slavs nor slated to be killed. They might be able to raise quite a few local units. It's not enough to turn the tide but it is a nice bonus for them and I don't see them having much trouble with the occupation.
The Chechens did not seem to get on with the Germans due to their ultimately imperialist goals and allying with traditional Chechen foes, the Cossacks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940–44_insurgency_in_Chechnya#German_support
 
Huh I didn't know that. Interesting I was basing this on German interactions with the Kamlyks, but I guess that doesn't prove true for every group.
 
It may be that some regions welcomed Wehrmacht over Stalinist forces, but that changed quickly when the SS troops showed up.
 
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