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The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their mutual enemy, Nazi Germany (World War II), which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, while the Soviet Union delayed until May, initially citing "threats to Soviet security", followed by the Iran crisis of 1946 .
The Persian Corridor was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. Of the 17.5 million long tons of US Lend-Lease aid provided to the Soviet Union, 7.9 million long tons (45%) were sent through Iran. [1]
Iran's bio-diversity ranks 13th in the world. [ citation needed ] There are 272 conservation areas around Iran for a total of 17 million hectares under the supervision of the Department of Environment (Iran) , variously named national parks, protected areas, and natural wildlife refuges, all meant to protect the genetic resources of the country.
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World War II sites in Iran (1 C) Pages in category "Iran in World War II" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The impact of World War II on Iran is acknowledged by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In the entry in the Holocaust Encyclopedia on "Iran During World War II," the following is stated: [14] The impact of World War II on Iran was devastating. Iranian neutrality was ignored and the country lost its de facto independence to occupying ...
One of key features of the ongoing "Great Prophet 19" military exercise has been a simulated aerial assault on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, with fictional strikes seeing an enemy hit the plant ...
View of the courtyard of a home in Iran, 1942, taken by Charles L. Twitchell, World War II veteran stationed in the Persian Gulf. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States equipped Russia with 192,000 trucks and thousands of aircraft, combat vehicles, tanks, weapons, ammunition and petroleum products.