The Persian Expedition of Catherine the Great , alongside the Persian Expedition of Peter the Great , was one of the Russo-Persian Wars of the 18th century which did not entail any lasting consequences for either belligerent .

Catherine the Great of Russia took advantage of the disorder to consolidate her control over the weak polities of the Caucasus , which was , for swaths of it , an integral Persian domain .

The Shah left Departing Iran for exile on 16 January 1979 , as the last Persian monarch , leaving his duties to a regency council and Shapour Bakhtiar who was an opposition-based prime minister .

The term Ispah might derive from the Persian word `` سپاه '' ( `` sepâh '' ) , meaning `` army '' or `` Sepoy '' .

Thus , the rebellion is also known as the Persian Sepoy rebellion ( 波斯戍兵之亂 ; `` Bōsī Shùbīng zhī Luàn '' ) in Chinese documents .

Under Mongol rule , the number of Arab and Persian Muslims residing in the Chinese port city of Quanzhou was greatly boosted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale .

The 2004 Iranian seizure Arrest of Royal Navy personnel took place Process_start in the Shatt al-Arab ( Arvand Rud in Persian ) waterway on 21 June .

The Royal Navy boats were operating Control close to the northern coast of the Persian Gulf in the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway which divides southern Iran and Iraq .

The ultimate objective was to seize the islands of Hormuz and Bahrain , in order to block Portuguese access to the Persian Gulf and thus reestablish Recovering Ottoman control of the Indian Ocean Trade .

They were then under the command Control of the U.S. Navy 's Seventh Fleet which had primary responsibility for combat operations in the Persian Gulf region .

The war is also known Know under other names , such as the Persian Gulf War , First Gulf War , Gulf War I , Kuwait War , First Iraq War or Iraq War , before the term `` Iraq War '' became Becoming identified instead with the post-2003 Iraq War .

The liberation Change_of_leadership of Isfahan was a direct result of the Battle Hostile_encounter of Murche-Khort in which the Persian army under Nader attacked Attack and routed Ashraf 's Afghan army .

The promotion launched Process_start a series of syndicated programs in the 2000-01 television seasons in 102 TV markets using Using a similar format of character driven performers , with names befitting a comic book series , such as Jungle Grrrl , an inmate tag-team complete Process_end with orange jump suits named Caged Heat , a Hollywood starlet named Lana Star , and the Persian Princess .

In 615 , during the ongoing war with the Byzantine Empire , the Sassanid Persian army under spahbod Shahin invaded Attack Asia Minor and reached Arriving Chalcedon , across the Bosporus from Constantinople .

It was at this point , according to Sebeos , that Heraclius had agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to stand down and was about ready to become Becoming a client of the Sasanian emperor Khosrow II , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Roman Empire to become Becoming a Persian client state , as well as even allow Preventing_or_letting Khosrow II to choose Choosing the emperor .

After negotiations Communication with Byzantine Emperor Heraclius , a Byzantine ambassador was sent Sending to Persian Shahanshah Khosrau II , and Shahin withdrew Escaping again to Syria .

According to Sebeos , when they reached Arriving Chalcedon in 615 , Heraclius had agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to stand down and was about ready to become Becoming a client of the Sasanian emperor Khosrow II , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Roman Empire to become Becoming a Persian client state , as well as even allow Preventing_or_letting Khosrow II to choose Choosing the emperor .