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In the middle of 1943, Abwehr's Operation Francois was an attempt to use the dissident Qashqai people in Iran to sabotage British and American supplies bound for the Soviet Union. Also in 1943, Operation Long Jump was, allegedly, an unsuccessful German plot to assassinate the "Big Three" Allied leaders (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) at the ...
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Includes operations in Iraq, Syria, Iran, India, Burma, Malaya and Indo-China, and the Indian Ocean Anakim (1943) – proposed strategy to retake Burma and reopen the land route to China; Bajadere (1942) – German special forces operation in India, including Free India Legion personnel
The British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union invaded Pahlavi Iran jointly in 1941 during the Second World War. The invasion lasted from 25 August to 17 September 1941 and was codenamed Operation Countenance.
Countenance divine, or divine countenance, a reference to the literal or metaphorical "face of God" Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, called Operation Countenance, the 1941 joint invasion of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
On 25 August 1941 British and Commonwealth forces and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Iran. The purpose of the invasion (codenamed Operation Countenance) was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure supply lines (see Persian Corridor) for the Soviets fighting against European Axis countries on the Eastern Front.
Operation Ajax was granted authorization by the Department of State and the British Foreign Office in mid-July 1953. [10] Operation Ajax was conceived and executed by the US Embassy in Tehran. The same location where the 1979 Hostage Crisis would take place years later. Operation Ajax, also known as TPAJAX was aimed to cause the fall of the ...
The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" (Persian: نجات قیام ایران بزرگ; acronymed NEQAB, Persian: نقاب, lit. 'Mask') more commonly known as the Nojeh coup d'état (Persian: کودتای نوژه, romanized: Kūdetâ-ye Nowžeh), was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ruhollah Khomeini.