WW1 WI: Persia joined the entente

Keenir

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What if in WW1 persia Joined the Entente?

What would the middle east look like?

by the time of WW2, Iraq would be Persian territory....and the young USSR would have ceded Armenia and Georgia to Persia (though the USSR would still put those nations on its side of the border in the maps)

hmm...Stalin in the Persian military...
 

yourworstnightmare

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Not much would actually change, Reza Khan's rise to power might get affected, and parts of Iraq could be ceded to Persia, the Russian borders will remain the same.
 
by the time of WW2, Iraq would be Persian territory....and the young USSR would have ceded Armenia and Georgia to Persia (though the USSR would still put those nations on its side of the border in the maps)

...why?

Just out of interest? How would that happen and how would it stay that way?
 
Persia in 1914-1918 was a lot like Mexico: it was on the maps but not so much in reality. The central government did not have control beyond the capital and the countryside was either in rebellion, in anarchy or occupied by Russian and British troops guarding their own spheres of influence.

So you have to use an earlier POD to strengh Persia (the latest would be something realted to the constitutional revolution of 1905). That would considerably increase the Allied troops in the region, but the Persians would still be a lot weaker than the Ottomans (both in weapons and leadership). And I doubt Russia and Britain would refuse to their ambitions over the area in favor of Persia, by the way.
 
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