Treaties
- 1555 Treaty of Amasya: The first treaty between Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1639 Treaty of Zuhab: Iran loses Iraq to the Ottoman Empire.
- 1813 Gulestan Treaty: Iran loses a large amount of its land in the Caucasus.
- 1828 Turkmenchay Treaty: Signed by Fath Ali Shah. Russia gains sovereignty over the Caucasus.
- 1857 Paris Treaty: Signed by Nasereddin Shah. Iran loses Herat and parts of Afghanistan in exchange for the evacuation of Iran's southern ports by Great Britain.
- 1881 Akhal Treaty: Signed by Nasereddin Shah. Iran loses Merv and parts of Khwarazmia in exchange for security guarantees from Russia.
- 1893: Iran transfers to Russia additional regions near the Atrek River that were Iranian under the Akhal Treaty. This treaty was signed by General Boutsoff and Mirza Ali Asghar Amin al-Sultan on May 27, 1893.
- 1907: Persia was to be carved up into three regions, according to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.
- 1970: Iran abandons sovereignty rights over Bahrain to Great Britain in exchange for Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa islands in the Persian Gulf.
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“There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.”
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