Soviet oil policies in Iran, the establishment of a democratic sect and the role of the Azerbaijani people

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in post-Islamic Iranian history, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Institute of History, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of History, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

How the sect was formed and overthrown by some ethnocentric and centrifugal circles has always been controversial, but with the release of secret Soviet documents after (1991), more angles of the relationship and issues behind the events of the years in question. Soviet policies toward Iran and the Democratic Party have also been exposed. The findings of this paper are based on a combined method, ie a combination of comparative study and rational analysis, and tries to answer the question of what is the relationship between the emergence of a democratic sect and Soviet oil concessions in Iran. The long-standing rivalry between Russia and Britain and the monopoly of southern oil on British colonial iodine were among the factors influencing the Soviet conquest of northern oil. Soviet attention to northern oil dates back to World War I. The occupation of parts of Iranian territory and the Soviet refusal to evacuate it, despite a previous agreement, provided an appropriate opportunity for the Soviets to seek concessions. Although the Soviet Union tried to present the formation of a democratic sect in Azerbaijan as a popular and identity-seeking movement, a study of objective documents and evidence shows that the existence, goals, ideology and actions of the democratic sect were all developed in the Soviet Union. The Democratic Party acted in parallel with the Tudeh Party and the Left Forces in line with Soviet goals, including the issue of oil concessions in the North

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 5, Issue 2
June 2022
Pages 207-228

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