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German Foreign Policy Towards Iran Before World War II: Political Relations, Economic Influence and the National Bank of Persia

German Foreign Policy Towards Iran Before World War II: Political Relations, Economic Influence and the National Bank of Persia

Khatib-Shahidi, Rashid

Hardcover

Series: Library of International Relations

General Middle Eastern HistoryGerman HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1848853246
ISBN13: 9781848853249
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 15 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Early twentieth-century Iran had been dominated by the competing influences of the two great imperial powers of the time - Russia and Britain - making it difficult for a third power to establish a foothold. But an emergent, highly industrialised and assertive Germany in the 1930s became an attractive ally through which Iran could cut loose from domination by Britain and the Soviet Union, allowing it to seek modernity outside the constraints of old imperial interests. This led to the development of close commercial ties between Reza Shah's Persia and Hitler's Germany in the interwar period, an aspect of German foreign policy that is often overlooked. It was the National Bank of Persia, established in 1927 under German management, and with Kurt Lindenblatt as its governor, that was to be the vehicle for Germany's commercial expansion into Iran. The Bank was a vital engine driving industrialisation, even after Lindenblatt retired and was followed by Gholam Reza Amir-Khosrari and a board of directors including Hossein Ala and Abdul Hossein Hazhir.

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