Treaty of Paris (1857)

For other treaties also known as a "Treaty of Paris", see Treaty of Paris (disambiguation).

Ferouk Khan in The Illustrated London News, 1857.

The Treaty of Paris (1857) marked the end of the hostilities of the Anglo-Persian War. On the Persian side negotiations were handled by ambassador Ferukh Khan. The two sides signed the peace treaty on 4 March 1857.^[1]^[2]

Persia in 1808 according to a British map, before losses to Russia in the north by the 1813 Treaty of Gulistan, and the loss of Herat to Great Britain in 1857 through the Treaty of Paris.

In the Treaty, the Persians agreed to withdraw from Herat, to apologise to the British ambassador on his return, and to sign a commercial treaty; the British agreed not to shelter opponents of the Shah in the embassy, and they abandoned the demand to replace prime minister as well as one requiring territorial concessions to the Imam of Muscat, a British ally.

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↑ Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces Steven R. Ward, p.80
↑ The Middle East and North Africa 2004 Taylor & Francis Group, Lucy Dean p.364

Iran–United Kingdom relations

Participants	Individuals	Conflicts	Diplomacy

Primary Governments United Kingdom Iran Other Governments United States Organizations United Nations European Union Former governments Safavid Dynasty Qajar Dynasty Pahlavi Dynasty British Empire Russian Empire Soviet Union German Empire Former Companies British East India Company Anglo-Persian Oil Company Imperial Bank of Persia	16th century Anthony Jenkinson 17th century Abbas I of Persia Robert Shirley Anthony Shirley 18th century 19th century Fat'h-Ali Shah John Malcolm William Ouseley Naser al-Din Shah Frederic John Goldsmid Paul Reuter Mirza Shirazi William Knox D'Arcy 20th century Morgan Shuster Wilhelm Wassmuss George Curzon Edmund Ironside Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee Reza Shah Pahlavi Abdolhossein Teymourtash Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammed Mosaddeq Hossein Fatemi Abol-Ghasem Kashani Ruhollah Khomeini Salman Rushdie	Capture of Ormuz (1622) Anglo-Persian War Tobacco Protest 1921 Persian coup d'état Persian Campaign Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Operation Ajax Abadan Crisis 2004 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel Current international tensions with Iran	Persian embassy to Europe (1599–1602) Persian embassy to Europe (1609–1615) Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1801 Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1809 The Great Game Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1812 Treaty of Paris (1857) Reuter Concession Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 Anglo-Iranian Agreement of 1919 Tehran Conference

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Treaty of Paris (1857)

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