The occupation of a neutral country by the United Nations Alliance potentially killed millions of innocent people. Few seemed to care at the time and it has gone largely unreported in traditional historiography. This is the forgotten famine of World War Two. The Iranian Famine.
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Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources
Key sources:
Jackson, Ashley. Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq. (2018).
Majd, Mohammad Gholi. Iran Under Allied Occupation In World War II: The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine. UPA, 2016.
Majd, Mohammad Gholi. The Three Famines and the Makings of a Malthusian Catastrophe in Iran (1869-1944). Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History. 12 (2021): 75-105.
McFarland, Stephen L. A peripheral view of the origins of the cold war: the crises in Iran, 194147. Diplomatic History 4, no. 4 (1980): 333-352.
McFarland, Stephen L. Anatomy of an Iranian political crowd: The Tehran bread riot of December 1942. International Journal of Middle East Studies 17, no. 1 (1985): 51-65.
Milani, Abbas. The shah. Macmillan, 2012.
Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com
Image sources:
Iranian bread picture courtesy of Roozitaa from Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson courtesy of NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
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