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    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...
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    connectivity and economic integration between Asia, the Persian Gulf and Europe. The corridor is a proposed route from India to Europe through the United...
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    USSR, through a pathway known historically as the "Persian Corridor". Britain utilized the Persian Gulf as the entry point for the supply chain in order...
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    road system Persian Corridor Trans-Iranian Railway Via Regia (Germany) Great Trunk Road Khurasan Road Graf, David F. (1994). "The Persian Royal Road System"...
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    Soviet Union was terminated. Delivery was via the Arctic Convoys, the Persian Corridor, and the Pacific Route. The Arctic route was the shortest and most...
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    Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
    was to ensure the safety of Allied supply lines to the USSR (see the Persian Corridor), secure Iranian oil fields, limit German influence in Iran (Reza Shah...
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  • Persian Gulf—Black Sea corridor is a transport and transit corridor project proposed and created by Iran. The corridor project starts from the Persian...
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    international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. This route will be operationalised...
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  • supply of US lend-lease war material to the Soviet Union, through the "Persian Corridor". The command originated in September 1941, when the US Military Iranian...
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    Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Pomorze, Polski Korytarz), also known as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor,...
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    Pahlavi Iran (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    strategic purpose was to secure a supply line to the USSR (later named the Persian Corridor), secure the oil fields and Abadan Refinery (of the UK-owned Anglo-Iranian...
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    The Wakhan Corridor (Pashto: واخان دهلېز, romanized: Vâxân dahléz; Persian: دالان واخان, romanized: dâlân-e vâxân) is a narrow strip of territory located...
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    constituted some 23 percent of the total aid to the USSR during the war. The Persian Corridor was the longest route (and the only all-weather route) to the USSR...
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    was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines (see Persian Corridor). Iran remained officially neutral. Its monarch Rezā Shāh was deposed...
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    of Studebaker US6 trucks were supplied to the Soviet Union via the Persian Corridor in Iran under the US's Lend-Lease program.[citation needed] The truck...
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    has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat...
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    secure the oilfields and open a secure supply route to the USSR. The Persian Corridor sent over 4 million tonnes of American Lend-Lease and other materiel...
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    has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat...
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    invasion was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure supply lines (see Persian Corridor) for the Soviets fighting against Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front...
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    Gruppe of U-boats operated from the eastern Indian Ocean after the Persian Corridor became an important military supply route to the Soviet Union. 15 November...
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  • Persian architecture Persian art Persian Bayán Persian calendar Persian Canadians Persian carpet Persian Christians Persian column Persian Corridor Persian...
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    Iran (redirect from Persian State of Iran)
    strategic purpose was to secure a supply line to the USSR (later named the Persian Corridor), secure the oil fields and Abadan Refinery (of the UK-owned Anglo-Iranian...
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    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    USSR during the war. This massive supply effort became known as the Persian Corridor. Much of the credit for orchestrating a smooth transition of power...
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  • reasons such as securing the Allied supply lines to the USSR (see the Persian Corridor) and limiting German influence there (the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah,...
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    Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom'), was...
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    original US Iranian Mission and was responsible for US troops manning the Persian Corridor. It was originally commanded by Col. Don G. Shingler, who was replaced...
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    Volga (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    Soviet Union, hampering its access to oil and to supplies via the Persian Corridor. For this reason, many amphibious military assaults were brought about...
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    Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (category CS1 uses Persian-language script (fa))
    Caspian Sea. After the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941, this Persian Corridor became one of the supply routes for war material for the Soviet Union...
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    China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) (Chinese: 中巴经济走廊; pinyin: Zhōng bā jīngjì zǒuláng; Urdu: چین پاکستان اقتصادی راہداری) is a 3,000 km Chinese infrastructure...
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  • with supplies to resist Japanese domination, in much the same way Persian Corridor needed to be kept open to keep the USSR supplied by the Western Allies...
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