World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran" id="mwvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran">Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" id="mwvQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> jointly stage an invasion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_Iran" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pahlavi Iran">Imperial State of Iran</a>.<sup about="#mwt40" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_25#cite_note-6" id="mwwA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwwQ">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt37" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWard2009">Ward, Steven R. (2009). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8eUTLaaVOOQC&amp;pg=PA155" id="mwB8k" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB8o">Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces</i></a>. Georgetown University Press. p.<span id="mwB8s" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>155. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB80" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-58901-258-5" id="mwB84" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58901-258-5"><bdi id="mwB88">978-1-58901-258-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt37" class="Z3988" id="mwB9A" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Immortal%3A+A+Military+History+of+Iran+and+Its+Armed+Forces&amp;rft.pages=155&amp;rft.pub=Georgetown+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-58901-258-5&amp;rft.aulast=Ward&amp;rft.aufirst=Steven+R.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D8eUTLaaVOOQC%26pg%3DPA155&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+25"></span></span>