List of wars involving Iran

• Destruction of Assyria's capital

Founding of Neo-Babylonian Empire

• Persian retreat to Pasargadae

• By conquering Media, Iran became an empire.

• Lydia annexed by Iran.

• Neo-Babylonian Empire annexed by Iran.

• Egypt annexed by Iran.

• Achaemenid domination of the European Black Sea regions.

• Macedon, Thrace and Ionia gained independence.

• Dissolution of the Delian League. Spartan hegemony over Athens and its allies.

• Artaxerxes II still in full control of the kingdom.

• Ionia ceded back to Achaemenid Iran. Boeotian league dissolved. Union of Argos and Corinth dissolved

• Negotiated peace with rival chiefs.

• Rebellions chrushed.

• Egypt is conquered for a second time by Iran.

• Iran conquered by the army of Alexander the Great.

• Expulsion of the Seleucids from Iran.

• Osroene and Atrpatakan loyalty to Tigranes the Great.

• Borders changed several times.

• Borders changed several times.

• Borders changed several times.

• Ethiopians expelled from the Himyarite Kingdom.

• The Sassanids captured Balkh.

• Turkic invasion of Iran repelled.

• Byzantine control of Georgia.

• Fall of the Sassanid Empire

• Seljuks enter Anatolia.

• Most of Anatolia conquered by the Seljuks.

• Khwarezmia added to the Mongol Empire.

• Rise of the Timurid Empire in Iran.
• The Delhi Sultanate became a Timurid vassal.
• Outbreak of the Ottoman Civil War.

• Rise of the Shiite Safavid dynasty.

• Fall of the Shaybanid Empire.

• End of Shia uprisings in the Ottoman Empire.

• Ottomans captured Lower Mesopotamia and Baghdad. First partition of the Caucasus between the Ottomans and Persians. Western Armenia and western Georgia falls in Ottoman hands, Eastern Armenia, eastern Georgia, Dagestan and the contemporary Republic of Azerbaijan remain in Persian hands

• Kingdom of Kartli

 

• Crimean Khanate

• Treaty of Constantinople (1590).

• Persian reconquest of all of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia

• Kandahar falls to Persia

• Permanent partition of the Caucasus; Western Georgia and Western Armenia goes to the Ottomans, while Eastern Armenia, Dagestan, Eastern and Southern Georgia, and Azerbaijan remain under Persian rule. Ottomans decisively gain control over Mesopotamia.

• Persia recaptured Kandahar

• Russian fortress on the Iranian side of the Terek River destroyed, and its garrison expelled.

• Afghan control of most of Iran.

• Omani victory, Bahrain sold back to the Safavids.

• Russians capture Derbent, Baku, and the provinces of Shirvan, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad for about a decade.

• End of the Afghan rule in Persia.

• Erivan Khanate

 

• Crimean Khanate

• Persian reconquest of the entire Caucasus.

• Persian plundering of India.

• Treaty of Kerden, Status Quo Ante Bellum

• Mohammad Khan Qajar became the Shah of Iran.

• Tbilisi captured and sacked by Iranian troops. Persian reconquest of the Caucasus and Georgia.

• Tactical Russian withdrawal from Iran.

• Treaty of Gulistan. Iran irrevocably cedes most of its Caucasus territories (Dagestan, Georgia, and most of the Azerbaijan Republic) to Russia.

• Treaty of Erzurum, status quo ante bellum.

• Treaty of Turkmenchay. Iran irrevocably cedes the remainder of its Caucasus territories comprising parts of the contemporary Azerbaijan Republic that were not ceded yet in 1813, as well as all of what is nowadays the Republic of Armenia.

• Persian withdrawal from Herat.

• Persian withdrawal from Herat.

• Ottoman withdrawal after signing of Armistice of Mudros.

• Abdication of Rezā Shāh, Allied occupation of Iran.

• Dissolution of Mahabad and Azerbaijan.

• Defeat of insurgents, modernization of Oman.

• Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598.
• Return to status quo, observed by UNIIMOG.

• Capture of Abdolmalek Rigi.
• Dissolution of Jundallah

• Clashes renew in 2013.

• Rebel and Islamist uprisings quelled in much of Syria.
• Most of Syria now controlled by Syrian Government, which is supported by Iran.
• Islamic State in Syria defeated near the end of 2017.

• Iran launches successful airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq.
• Iranian military troops successfully defeat ISIL on the ground.
• ISIL dissolved in Iraq due to Iranian military intervention.
• Iranian victory