The lightening operation to seize Iranian oil fields and railroads to fuel the Red Army was launched a few months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
March 28, 2026
For most of the 19th century, the British and Russians vied with each for control of Central and West Asia in what Rudyard Kipling the "Great Game" in his 1901 novel Kim.
One of the most intriguing British characters of this era was Harry St.