List of wars involving Iran (before 1979)

This is a list of wars involving Iran before 1979, i.e., the predecessor states of today's Islamic Republic of Iran. It is an unfinished historical overview.

Elamite civilisation

Median kingdom

Achaemenid Empire

Hellenistic era

Parthian Empire

Sasanian Empire

Medieval Islamic era

First Turco-Persian era

Mongolian era

Second Turco-Persian era

Safavid Iran

Afsharid Iran

Zand Iran

Qajar Iran

Pahlavi Iran

See also

• List of wars involving Iran
• History of Iran
• History of the central steppe
• Military history of Iran
• Iranian expansionism
• Cyrus in Babylon and the Jewish connection
• List of massacres in Iran
• Greco-Persian Wars
• Roman–Persian Wars
• Parthian army
• Military of the Sasanian Empire
• List of Sasanian revolts and civil wars
• Göktürk–Persian wars
• Hephthalite–Persian Wars
• Aksumite–Persian wars
• Military of Safavid Iran
• Persian–Uzbek wars
• Ottoman–Persian Wars
• Persian–Afghan Wars
• Military of Afsharid Iran
• Mughal–Persian Wars
• Russo-Persian Wars
• Swedish intervention in Persia
• Persian Corridor (a.k.a. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran)
• Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution (1979–1982/83)
• Kurdish separatism in Iran

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