Claims of Territories Lost by Iran: From Gulistan to the Persian Gulf

The extent of the lands separated

from Iran based on the shameful Treaties of Gulistan and Turkmenchay with Russia in

1813 and 1828 A.D.:

Arran and Shirvan, 86,600 square kilometers.

These were taken from Fath- Ali Shah onward! Armenia, 29,800 square kilometers,

was separated from Iran. Georgia, 69, 700 square kilometers,

was separated from Iran. Dagestan, 50, 300 square kilometers,

was separated from Iran. North Ossetia, 8,000 square kilometers,

was separated from Iran.

Chechnya, 15,700 square kilometers, was separated from Iran.

Ingushetia, 3,600 square kilometers.

Based on the treaty drawn up by British advisers,

Herat and Afghanistan, 353, thousand and some square kilometers.

Parts of Baluchistan and Makran, 350,000 square kilometers.

The lands beyond the Oxus that were separated,

based on the Akhal Treaty with Russia in the time of Naser al- Din Shah.

Turkmenistan, 488,000 and some square kilometers.

Uzbekistan, 447,000 and some square kilometers. Tajikistan,

141,300 square kilometers. Kazakhstan, 100,000 square kilometers.

Kyrgyzstan, fifty thousand kilometers.

The lands separated south of the Persian Gulf under a regional treaty with

British advisers.

The Emirates, eighty- three thousand six hundred kilometers.

Bahrain, six hundred ninety- four square kilometers.

Qatar, eleven thousand four hundred ninety- three square kilometers.

Oman, three hundred nine thousand five hundred kilometers. Look at this map of Iran,

how mighty it was,

and then they turned it into a cat over these past two hundred current years!

Our students need to know these things!

Television has to come and say these things.

So that our people understand what preserving territorial integrity means!