The Moscow treaty renounced a range of Tsarist-era privileges and debts and recognized Persian sovereignty. Article 6 also reserved a Soviet right to intervene if a third power used Iranian territory to threaten Russia and Tehran could not remove the danger. It combined repudiation of old imperial privileges with a security clause that later became contentious.
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What combination characterized the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty?
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The event record explains why this distinction matters: Repudiation of Tsarist privileges alongside a Soviet security clause.