Gholam-Ali Oveissi , general and the Chief Commander of the Imperial

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Both saw the newly opened Trans-persian Railroad as a strategic route to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union and were concerned that Reza Shah was sympathetic to the Axis powers, despite his declaration of neutrality. In August 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded homeland and deposed him in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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