Student Name: Asfand Yar Khan

Student ID: 21-10470

Foreign influence in late 19th Century Iran

Iran as a buffer state, was not an as effective as compared to that of Afghanistan because it
allowed foreign influence which was possible due to the number of reasons like that of policies
and attitudes and ideological perspective. The reason behind this influence, is basically mainly
that of the policies in Iran that were appealing to foreign influence and the attitude of the rulers
of Iran. These policies of Iran were more of the individualistic ideology and Afghans had more
of a nationalistic approach. 

Following are the examples of the foreign influence in the 19th century Iran:

1. In the first half of the 19th century, Russia was able to conquer Iran and take over part of
its territory later into Russian-occupied Azerbaijan. As the British expanded their
influence in Afghanistan and Baluchistan and the Persian Gulf, Iranian rulers came to the
aid of two foreign powers who forged more than 150 years of Theher and Persian
leadership.
2. In the 19th century Britain's growing prominence in the region and its impact on Iranian
foreign relations, and Iranian ideas, shaped the power of Persian nationalism and its
global outlook. Britain's role in Iran came to prominence with the discovery of oil in
1908, following a successful search by British businessman and oil master William Know
D'Arcy. In the ten years that the Royal Navy has decided to change coal to oil use its
warships. London has until then relied on American oil from Texas, and as the United
States and Russia became the world's largest oil producers and exporters, British
policymakers were reluctant to rely on oil from countries that could refuse access to what
came to be a strategic source.
3. As British influence diminished in the Middle East, the United States played a major role,
so Iranian nationalism, nativism, and Shiite Islam and Christian racism flourished in
Washington State. Internal Iranian power struggles saw Mullahs, left-wing scholars and
foreigners oppose the violence against the Shah. He was forced into exile for a short time
in 1953 and returned with the help of Iranian military and aides, as well as British and
American intelligence, to fight the Communist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh.
With a brief exile of Shah. The main interest of the United States in Iran, contrary to what
many Iranian and American critics believe was that it was not oil that was troubling
Britain. Washington's main concern was a ban on Soviet activity and / or influence on
Iran. Iran in 1953 had the largest Communist party in the Middle East and possibly the
third largest Communist party in the whole of Asia. The Marxist-Leninist Soviet
development model and its imperfect elements attracted a large line of Iranian scholars
and nations