Abstract
THE HISTORY OF THE FORIGN CONCESSIONS IN IRAN QAJAR PERIOD AS A SAMPLE
The theme of the foreign concessions in Iran considers from the most
important subjects in the Iran’s modern history, because its traces
touched every side of the Society and the States sides in this big and
important Country in the Middle East, as Iran was for different
consideration in the place of the concern of the emulation of the
power full forces in the scope of its early concern to find influence
places for her in the Arabic Gulf area and the Middle east in general,
to open in front of her the way of the surveillance and setting the
Economics and political benefits.
The current study aims on the way of observation and the historic
continuation and the analysis to put the light on a very important
period from the west submerge in Iran, during the Qajar Iran period.
Historical; the Anglo - Russian competition continuous, which took
competition form and struggle alongside of the nineteenth century,
and the beginning of the twentieth century, as a lonely element and
systematics, and very strong influence in the Iran interior and
external policy. It is impossible to understand numerous sides of the
developments which happened in the modern Iran, whether on the
local policy, and may be at the same level on the level of the external
policy, except on the light of understanding the nature of the
relations which banded Iran with these great forces, which took what
we can describe: nature of struggle – cooperation on the spot light on
the strength balance, which had been imposed by these surveillance
forces, which had been continued for long decades expanded until
the first quarter of the twentieth century .Also, this study prepares
the opportunity to know the trace which had been left behind of the
west submerge, and the Iran connection with the international
capitalist market, on the international socialist and economic
structures in this country, and the deep alteration which starts to observe it, whether on the duty of the country and its structure, or
on the economics level.
Keywords
Qajar, Iran, concessions, Russia, Britain
