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|b There are many reasons for military trends of Iran towards East where the Afghanic Harat province is the first: 1- The desire of Mohammad Shah and his great representative Merza Aghasi and the most Iranian court princes to annex Harat province to Iran, justifying that the province was followed to Iranian the previous era, especially in the AL-Safawi era. 2- The increasing Russian activity in Iraq which represented in convincing AL-Shah and Iranian government to move towards East in order to move away from northern borders, and to forget their great losses against Russian where Iran committed two losing and destructive wars against Russia between 1804-1813 and 1826-1828. But the British situation of Iranian trends was different from that of Russian in the sense that the British government in London and its representative in Bombay adopted opposed situation to the desires of Mohammad Shah to annex Harat to Iran. The reasons for this situation were clear which are represented by its fear on its colony India from the Russian extension. Therefore, the British did increasing activity throat the period which was known by Harat crisis to prevent the Iranian attack against Harat and to evoke Afghanian princes against Tehran. In spite of British opposition, Mohammed Shah advanced his forces to wards Harat on September 1973 and he could control Ghoryan city, its defended palace, then he stressed the blocked on the Harat city for one year. Thus the judge of Harat, Kameran Merza wanted to surrender to Iran in the last days of blocked. Balmirston’s view, the foreign minister of Britain, was extreme towards Tehran in the sense that on October 1838 a military force advanced according to his orders from Bombay to kharij island in the Arab Gulf and occupied it. This procedure was decisive concerning the decision of Mohammad Shah removing the blocked from Harat and the return of his forces to Tehran. In spite of the failure of Iranians in Harat, the Iranian greed's no longer stop in the later stages, those greed's renewed again. In addition to the British extreme situation towards Tehran, among the decisive affairs in removing the Iranian blockade from Harat was the change of Russian situation towards the case in the sense that Nislard, the Russian foreign minister, advised Tehran to surrender from Harat and Ghoryan, and to renew the confidence between Tehran and London. It is worth mentioning that we should not forget that the Iranian army was not in the required level in the military equipment, organization, and financial shortage to support the army in the sense that many of Iranian sources mentioned that the army salaries are always late for three years or more.
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