History of the Iran Revolution： Part 4
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This is part 4 of my series on the events leading up to the Iranian Revolution. In this episode, I talk about the events that led to the revolution in Iran, including the fall of the Qajar dynasty and the rise of communism.
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Hi TikTok, let's talk about the Iranian Revolution. This is part 4 of my series
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where I talk about the events leading up to the current Iranian revolution. If you
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haven't seen part 3 please go check it out the link is in my description below
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and then come back and finish watching this video. So after 11 year old Ali
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Shud took over from his father in 1909, even though he did re-establish the
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Persian Constitution, the Persian Parliament which is known as Majlis was
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re-established and began working again. His entire reign from 1909 up until 1921
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was strife with civil unrest, Western imperialism, more and more control by the
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British and Russians, and a terrible economy. The situation was so bad that
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even though Iran, or Persia as it was called at the time, was an oil-rich
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country, they were exporting oil all around the world. They were getting very
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little revenues, in fact basically nothing. So bad that they were relying on
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the British and the Russians for economic and military support. Persia's weakened
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military and economic state inspired the Russians to try to turn Iran into a communist country.
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In 1920, the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic in the city of Rasht was preparing to march on
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Tehran with a guerrilla force of 1,500 Jangalis, Kurds, Armenians, and Azerboid Janis,
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reinforced by the Bolshevik's Red Army. And this communist threat, along with various other
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disorders, mutinies, civil unrest, and other problems in the country, created an acute political
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crisis in the capital. Britain, who played a very major role in Western imperialism when it comes to
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Iran, or Persia as it was called at the time, was very perturbed by the fact that the Qajar dynasty
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could not rule properly and that there was a very realistic probability and threat that Persia
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could turn into a communist country. And as I explained in my first video in this series,
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from the mid-19th century up until 1921, Iran was basically a proxy war between England and Russia
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to determine which Western imperialist power would gain control of the country.
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And that's why on January 14, 1921, British General Edmund Ironside chose to promote Reza Khan,
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who had been leading the Tabriz Battalion, to lead the entire Cossack Brigade. Reza Khan was
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the first Iranian in history to lead the most powerful military brigade in Iran. And Britain
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promoted an Iranian and not a Russian because they were trying to counter Russian influence.
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Stay tuned for part 5 because that's where things start to get very spicy.