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Meanwhile, by 1881, Russia had completed its conquest of present-day Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, bringing Russia’s frontier to Persia’s northeastern borders and severing historic Persian ties to the cities of Bukhara and Samarqand.
Reza Shah Pahlavi (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944), born Reza Khan, was one …