List of wars involving Iran

• Destruction of Assyria's capital

Founding of Neo-Babylonian Empire

• Persian retreat to Pasargadae

• By conquering Media, Iran became an empire.

• Lydia annexed by Iran.

• Neo-Babylonian Empire annexed by Iran.

• Egypt annexed by Iran.

• Gandhara and Taxila annexed by Iran.

• Achaemenid domination of the European Black Sea regions.

• Macedon, Thrace and Ionia gained independence.

• Artaxerxes II still in full control of the kingdom.

• Negotiated peace with rival chiefs.

• Rebellions chrushed.

• Egypt is conquered for a second time by Iran.

• Iran conquered by the army of Alexander the Great.

• Expulsion of the Seleucids from Iran.

• Osroene and Atrpatakan loyalty to Tigranes the Great.

• Borders changed several times.kushanin - sassanid wars Kushanin Empire annexed by Iran

• Borders changed several times.

• Borders changed several times.

• Ethiopians expelled from the Himyarite Kingdom.

• The Sassanids captured Balkh.

• Turkic invasion of Iran repelled.

• Byzantine control of Georgia.

• Fall of the Sassanid Empire

• Seljuks enter Anatolia.

• Most of Anatolia conquered by the Seljuks.

• Khwarezmia added to the Mongol Empire.

• Rise of the Timurid Empire in Iran.
• The Delhi Sultanate became a Timurid vassal.
• Outbreak of the Ottoman Civil War.

• Rise of the Shiite Safavid dynasty.

• Fall of the Shaybanid Empire.

• End of Shia uprisings in the Ottoman Empire.

• Ottomans captured Lower Mesopotamia and Baghdad. First partition of the Caucasus between the Ottomans and Persians. Western Armenia falls in Ottoman hands, Eastern Armenia remains in Persian hands

• The Battle of Digomi was part of a campaign launched by the Georgian king Simon I of Kartli aimed at the liberation of the capital Tbilisi from the Persians in 1567. Daut Khan attempted to make a sortie with his Persian force, but was routed by Simon’s cavalry and found shelter within the walls of Tbilisi Fortress.

 

• * Crimean Khanate

• Treaty of Constantinople (1590).

• Persian reconquest of all of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia

• Permanent partition of the Caucasus; Western Georgia and Western Armenia goes to the Ottomans, while Eastern Armenia, Dagestan, Eastern and Southern Georgia, and Azerbaijan remain under Persian rule. Ottomans decisively gain control over Mesopotamia.

• Iran gains more influence in the North Caucasus.

• Afghan control of most of Iran.

• Russians capture Derbent, Baku, and the provinces of Shirvan, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad for about a decade.

• End of the Afghan rule in Persia.

• Erivan Khanate

 

• Crimean Khanate

• Persian reconquest of the entire Caucasus.

• Persian plundering of India.

• The Sikhs freed slaves from Nader Shah.

• Treaty of Kerden, Status Quo Ante Bellum

• Mohammad Khan Qajar became the Shah of Iran.

• Tbilisi captured and sacked by Iranian troops. Persian reconquest of the Caucasus and Georgia.

• Tactical Russian withdrawal from Iran.

• Treaty of Gulistan. Russia held on to disputed territories. Iran irrevocably cedes most of its Caucasus territories (Dagestan, Georgia, and most of the Azerbaijan Republic) to Russia.

• Treaty of Erzurum, status quo ante bellum.

• Treaty of Turkmenchay. Iran irrevocably cedes the remainder of its Caucasus territories comprising parts of the contemporary Azerbaijan Republic that were not ceded yet in 1813, as well as all of what is nowadays the Republic of Armenia.

• Persian withdrawal from Herat.

• Persian withdrawal from Herat.

• Abdication of Rezā Shāh, Allied occupation of Iran.

• Dissolution of Mahabad and Azerbaijan.

• Defeat of insurgents, modernization of Oman.

• Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598.
• Return to status quo, observed by UNIIMOG.

• Capture of Abdolmalek Rigi.

• Clashes renew in 2013.

• Rebel and Islamist uprising in much of Syria
• Much of Syria controlled by the Islamic State.

• Iran launches airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq.
• Iranian military troops engage ISIL on ground.
• Much of Iraq controlled by the Islamic State.