Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• seyed hassan shojaee_divkalaee

Assistant Professor, Department of History Mazandaran University

Abstract

Iran and the Soviet Union`s economic relations during the reign of Pahlavi I, owing to the adopted economic political policies of the two countries was different from those of Ghajar. While Russia by imposition of treaty of Turkmenchay became the first side of commercial relations with Iran, this position with commercial policy of the revolutionary government of the Soviet Union and Pahlavi I lost its significance in 1314 and Nazi Germany was replaced with mutual commercial relations. The type of mutual commercial relations between Iran and Nazi Germany with the security of economic commercial benefits paved the way for an obligation in the continuity of this trend for the country.
In spite of unwillingness in Farvardin of 1319, Iran made a contract with the Soviet Union on trade and sailing. Termination of this contract under the condition that Iran was unwilling in advance, arises this question that what were the effective factors in the termination of the contract on sailing and trade between Iran and the Soviet Union in 1319? This question in the article was surveyed according to historical research by using archive documents, journals and historical books. The finding of this research shows that World War II and marine siege of Germany by the allies were the effective factors in the termination of this contract. Marine siege of Germany paved the way for disorder and problems in commercial relations of Iran and Germany through the sea. Under this circumstance, in order to reach land way, Iran had to terminate a contract with the Soviet Union on trade and sailing in Farvardin of 1319, six month before World War II.

Keywords

• Iran
• Soviet Union
• economy
• Trade
• trade and sailing contract