Goldie Ghamari - March 15, 2023


History of the Iran Revolution： Part 4

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Reza Khan Azerboid Janis Ali Shidi Majlis

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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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00:00:00.000 Hi TikTok, let's talk about the Iranian Revolution. This is part 4 of my series
00:00:04.320 where I talk about the events leading up to the current Iranian revolution. If you
00:00:07.980 haven't seen part 3 please go check it out the link is in my description below
00:00:10.800 and then come back and finish watching this video. So after 11 year old Ali
00:00:14.340 Shud took over from his father in 1909, even though he did re-establish the
00:00:18.640 Persian Constitution, the Persian Parliament which is known as Majlis was
00:00:22.440 re-established and began working again. His entire reign from 1909 up until 1921
00:00:27.880 was strife with civil unrest, Western imperialism, more and more control by the
00:00:33.580 British and Russians, and a terrible economy. The situation was so bad that
00:00:38.260 even though Iran, or Persia as it was called at the time, was an oil-rich
00:00:42.080 country, they were exporting oil all around the world. They were getting very
00:00:46.540 little revenues, in fact basically nothing. So bad that they were relying on
00:00:50.860 the British and the Russians for economic and military support. Persia's weakened
00:00:55.960 military and economic state inspired the Russians to try to turn Iran into a communist country.
00:01:01.360 In 1920, the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic in the city of Rasht was preparing to march on
00:01:07.120 Tehran with a guerrilla force of 1,500 Jangalis, Kurds, Armenians, and Azerboid Janis,
00:01:14.060 reinforced by the Bolshevik's Red Army. And this communist threat, along with various other 0.63
00:01:19.000 disorders, mutinies, civil unrest, and other problems in the country, created an acute political
00:01:25.040 crisis in the capital. Britain, who played a very major role in Western imperialism when it comes to
00:01:30.640 Iran, or Persia as it was called at the time, was very perturbed by the fact that the Qajar dynasty 0.84
00:01:36.240 could not rule properly and that there was a very realistic probability and threat that Persia
00:01:41.360 could turn into a communist country. And as I explained in my first video in this series,
00:01:46.240 from the mid-19th century up until 1921, Iran was basically a proxy war between England and Russia
00:01:53.600 to determine which Western imperialist power would gain control of the country.
00:01:57.920 And that's why on January 14, 1921, British General Edmund Ironside chose to promote Reza Khan,
00:02:04.320 who had been leading the Tabriz Battalion, to lead the entire Cossack Brigade. Reza Khan was
00:02:09.360 the first Iranian in history to lead the most powerful military brigade in Iran. And Britain
00:02:14.640 promoted an Iranian and not a Russian because they were trying to counter Russian influence.
00:02:20.240 Stay tuned for part 5 because that's where things start to get very spicy.