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On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Convention in St Petersburg. Without consulting a single Persian, two empires drew lines across a sovereign map, settling an old imperial feud and planting the seeds of a century of grievance.
On 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched strikes across Iran. Whether this marks the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic — or another crisis it will survive — nobody yet knows.
On 22 February 1921, a Cossack officer named Reza Khan marched on Tehran and seized power. The dynasty he founded lasted fifty-four years. Its heir now calls for revolution from a suburb of Washington.
On 1 February 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini flew home from Paris and Iran changed for ever. Forty-seven years later, the regime he built is under more pressure than at any point since. It may not matter.
On 19 January 1629, Shah Abbas I died after forty-one years on the Safavid throne. He rebuilt a collapsing state into a military and commercial power, then crippled its future by destroying his own line of succession.