<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Conflict </Th> <Th> Iran and allies </Th> <Th> Opponents </Th> <Th> Results </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Median Empire (678--549 BC) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) </Td> <Td> Medes Babylonia </Td> <Td> Assyrian Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Destruction of Assyria's capital </Li> </Ul> <P> Founding of Neo-Babylonian Empire </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Fall of Assur (614 BC) </Td> <Td> Medes Babylonia </Td> <Td> Assyrian Empire </Td> <Td> Victory </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Eclipse (585 BC) </Td> <Td> Medes </Td> <Td> Kingdom of Lydia </Td> <Td> Undecided </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Hyrba (552 BC) </Td> <Td> Medes </Td> <Td> Persis </Td> <Td> Decisive Persian victory </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of the Persian border (551 BC) </Td> <Td> Medes </Td> <Td> Persis </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Persian retreat to Pasargadae </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Achaemenid Empire (550--330 BC) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Persian Revolt (552--549 BC) </Td> <Td> Persis </Td> <Td> Median Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> By conquering Media, Iran became an empire . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Conquest of Lydia (547 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Lydian Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Lydia annexed by Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Conquest of Babylonia (540--539 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Neo-Babylonian Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Neo-Babylonian Empire annexed by Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Conquest of Egypt (525 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Kingdom of Egypt </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Egypt annexed by Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> European Scythian campaign (513 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Scythians in European Scythia </Td> <Td> Expansive stalemate <Ul> <Li> Achaemenid domination of the European Black Sea regions . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Greco - Persian Wars (499--449 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Greek city states Delian League </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Macedon, Thrace and Ionia gained independence . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Peloponnesian War (431--404 BC) </Td> <Td> Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) Supported by: Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Delian League (led by Athens) </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Dissolution of the Delian League . Spartan hegemony over Athens and its allies . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Cunaxa (401 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Cyrus the Younger </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Artaxerxes II still in full control of the kingdom . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Corinthian War (395--387 BC) </Td> <Td> Athens Argos Corinth Thebes Achaemenid Empire Other allies </Td> <Td> Sparta Peloponnesian League </Td> <Td> Peace treaty dictated by Iran (Peace of Antalcidas) <Ul> <Li> Ionia ceded back to Achaemenid Iran . Boeotian league dissolved . Union of Argos and Corinth dissolved </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Artaxerxes' II Cadusian Campaign (385 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Cadusii </Td> <Td> Defeat, but diplomatic success <Ul> <Li> Negotiated peace with rival chiefs . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Revolt of the Satraps (372--362 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Rebel satrapies </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Rebellions chrushed . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Pelusium (343 BC) (343 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Egypt </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Egypt is conquered for a second time by Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Macedon invasion of Iran (355--328 BC) </Td> <Td> Achaemenid Empire </Td> <Td> Macedon </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Iran conquered by the army of Alexander the Great . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Parthian Empire (247 BCE--224 B) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Seleucid--Parthian Wars (238 BC--129 BC) </Td> <Td> Parthian Empire </Td> <Td> Seleucid Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Expulsion of the Seleucids from Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Armenian--Parthian War (87--85 BC) </Td> <Td> Parthian Empire </Td> <Td> Kingdom of Armenia </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Osroene and Atrpatakan loyalty to Tigranes the Great . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Roman--Parthian Wars (66 AD--217 AD) </Td> <Td> Parthian Empire Kingdom of Armenia </Td> <Td> Roman Republic Pontus </Td> <Td> Status quo ante bellum <Ul> <Li> Borders changed several times . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Sassanid Empire (224--651) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Roman - Sassanid Wars (232--440) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Roman Empire </Td> <Td> Status quo ante bellum <Ul> <Li> Borders changed several times . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Byzantine--Sassanid Wars (502--628) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Byzantine Empire </Td> <Td> Status quo ante bellum <Ul> <Li> Borders changed several times . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ethiopian--Persian Wars (570--578) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Kingdom of Aksum </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Ethiopians expelled from the Himyarite Kingdom . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> First Perso - Turkic War (588--589) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Hephthalite Empire Göktürks </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> The Sassanids captured Balkh . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Second Perso - Turkic War (588--589) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Western Turkic Khaganate Hephthalite Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Turkic invasion of Iran repelled . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Third Perso - Turkic War (627--629) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire </Td> <Td> Western Turkic Khaganate Byzantine Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Byzantine control of Georgia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Muslim conquest of Persia (633--644) </Td> <Td> Sassanid Empire Arab Christians </Td> <Td> Rashidun Caliphate </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Fall of the Sassanid Empire </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Saffarid Dynasty (861--1003) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Ghaznavid Dynasty (962--1186) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Seljuq Empire (1037--1194) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Manzikert (1071) </Td> <Td> Seljuk Empire </Td> <Td> Byzantine Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Seljuks enter Anatolia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Byzantine--Seljuq wars (1048--1308) </Td> <Td> Seljuk Empire </Td> <Td> Byzantine Empire Empire of Trebizond Crusader states </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Most of Anatolia conquered by the Seljuks . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Khwarazmian Dynasty (1077--1231) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia (1218--1221) </Td> <Td> Khwarazmian dynasty </Td> <Td> Mongol Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Khwarezmia added to the Mongol Empire . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Timurid Dynasty (1370--1507) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Campaigns of Timur (1380--1402) </Td> <Td> Timurid dynasty </Td> <Td> Golden Horde Ottoman Empire Muzaffarids Jalayirid Sultanate Tughlaq dynasty </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Rise of the Timurid Empire in Iran . </Li> <Li> The Delhi Sultanate became a Timurid vassal . </Li> <Li> Outbreak of the Ottoman Civil War . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Timurid Civil Wars (1405--~ 1501) </Td> <Td> Various factions </Td> <Td> Various factions </Td> <Td> Collapse of the dynasty <Ul> <Li> Rise of the Shiite Safavid dynasty . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Safavid Dynasty (1501--1736) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Persian - Uzbek Wars (1502--1510) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Shaybanids </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Fall of the Shaybanid Empire . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Chaldiran (1514) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> End of Shia uprisings in the Ottoman Empire . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ottoman--Safavid War of 1523 (1532--1555) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Ottomans captured Lower Mesopotamia and Baghdad . First partition of the Caucasus between the Ottomans and Persians . Western Armenia and western Georgia falls in Ottoman hands, Eastern Armenia, eastern Georgia, Dagestan and the contemporary Republic of Azerbaijan remain in Persian hands </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ottoman--Safavid War of 1578 (1578--1590) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty <Ul> <Li> Kingdom of Kartli </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire <Ul> <Li> Crimean Khanate </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Treaty of Constantinople (1590). </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ottoman--Safavid War of 1603 (1603--1618) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Persian reconquest of all of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mughal--Safavid War of 1622 (1622--1623) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Mughal Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Kandahar falls to Persia </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ottoman--Safavid War of 1623 (1623--1639) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> 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 . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mughal--Safavid War of 1649 (1649--1653) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty Khanate of Bukhara </Td> <Td> Mughal Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Persia recaptured Kandahar </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Russo - Persian War of 1651 (1651--1653) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Russia </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Russian fortress on the Iranian side of the Terek River destroyed, and its garrison expelled . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Hotaki - Safavid War (1709--~ 1722) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Hotaki dynasty </Td> <Td> Regime change <Ul> <Li> Afghan control of most of Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Omani Invasion of Bahrain (1717) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Imamate of Oman </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Omani victory, Bahrain sold back to the Safavids . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Russo - Persian War of 1722 (1722--1723) </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Russian Empire Cossack Hetmanate Georgia Melikdoms of Karabakh and Armenian rebels </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Russians capture Derbent, Baku, and the provinces of Shirvan, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad for about a decade . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Safavid - Hotaki War (1726--1729) </Td> <Td> Hotaki dynasty </Td> <Td> Safavid dynasty </Td> <Td> Regime change <Ul> <Li> End of the Afghan rule in Persia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Afsharid Dynasty (1736--1796) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Afsharid--Ottoman War War of 1730 (1730--1735) </Td> <Td> Afsharid dynasty <Ul> <Li> Erivan Khanate </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire <Ul> <Li> Crimean Khanate </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Persian reconquest of the entire Caucasus . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Nadir Shah's invasion of India (1738--1739) </Td> <Td> Afsharid dynasty </Td> <Td> Mughal Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Persian plundering of India . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Afsharid--Ottoman War War of 1743 (1743--1746) </Td> <Td> Afsharid dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Stalemate <Ul> <Li> Treaty of Kerden, Status Quo Ante Bellum </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Civil War between Afsharid and Qajar (1747--1796) </Td> <Td> Afsharid dynasty </Td> <Td> Qajar Dynasty </Td> <Td> Regime change <Ul> <Li> Mohammad Khan Qajar became the Shah of Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Qajar Dynasty (1785--1925) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Battle of Krtsanisi (1795) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Kartli - Kakheti Imereti </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Tbilisi captured and sacked by Iranian troops . Persian reconquest of the Caucasus and Georgia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Persian Expedition (1796) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Russian Empire </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Tactical Russian withdrawal from Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Russo - Persian War of 1804 (1804--1813) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Russian Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Treaty of Gulistan . Iran irrevocably cedes most of its Caucasus territories (Dagestan, Georgia, and most of the Azerbaijan Republic) to Russia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ottoman--Persian War of 1821 (1821--1823) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Ottoman Empire </Td> <Td> Stalemate <Ul> <Li> Treaty of Erzurum, status quo ante bellum . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Russo - Persian War of 1826 (1826--1828) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Russian Empire </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> 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 . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Siege of Herat (1838) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Afghanistan </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Persian withdrawal from Herat . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Anglo - Persian War (1856--1857) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> United Kingdom East India Company Afghanistan </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Persian withdrawal from Herat . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Persian Campaign (1914--1918) </Td> <Td> Qajar dynasty </Td> <Td> Russian Empire British Empire British Raj </Td> <Td> Stalemate <Ul> <Li> Ottoman withdrawal after signing of Armistice of Mudros . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Pahlavi Dynasty (1925--1979) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Anglo - Soviet invasion of Iran (1941) </Td> <Td> Iran </Td> <Td> Soviet Union United Kingdom India </Td> <Td> Defeat <Ul> <Li> Abdication of Rezā Shāh, Allied occupation of Iran . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Iran - Azerbaijan Crisis (1945--1946) </Td> <Td> Iran </Td> <Td> Mahabad Azerbaijan </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Dissolution of Mahabad and Azerbaijan . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Dhofar Rebellion (1963--1976) </Td> <Td> Iran Oman </Td> <Td> PFLOAG PFLO </Td> <Td> Victory <Ul> <Li> Defeat of insurgents, modernization of Oman . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="4"> Islamic Republic of Iran (1979--) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Iran--Iraq War (1980--1988) </Td> <Td> Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades </Td> <Td> Iraq MEK PDKI </Td> <Td> Stalemate <Ul> <Li> Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598 . </Li> <Li> Return to status quo, observed by UNIIMOG . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency (2004--present) </Td> <Td> Iran </Td> <Td> Jundallah (Iran) </Td> <Td> Ongoing <Ul> <Li> Capture of Abdolmalek Rigi . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Iran--PJAK Conflict (2004--present) </Td> <Td> Iran Turkey </Td> <Td> PJAK </Td> <Td> Ongoing <Ul> <Li> Clashes renew in 2013 . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Syrian Civil War (2011--present) </Td> <Td> Syria Hezbollah Iran Russia </Td> <Td> Free Syrian Army Islamic Front al - Nusra Front Islamic State </Td> <Td> Ongoing <Ul> <Li> Rebel and Islamist uprising in much of Syria </Li> <Li> Much of Syria controlled by the Islamic State . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Iraqi Civil War (2014--present) </Td> <Td> Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan Iran Asa'ib Ahl al - Haq Badr Organization Hezbollah Kata'ib Hezbollah </Td> <Td> Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant </Td> <Td> victory <Ul> <Li> Iran launches airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq . </Li> <Li> Iranian military troops engage ISIL on ground . </Li> <Li> Iranian victory </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Conflict </Th> <Th> Iran and allies </Th> <Th> Opponents </Th> <Th> Results </Th> </Tr>

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