Battle of Robat Karim
| Battle of Robat Karim | |||||||
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| Part of the Persian campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Russo-Persian Wars And The Caucasus Campaign | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Qajar Iran 1915 | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Nikolai Baratov |
Ahmad Shah Qajar Heydar Latifiyan † | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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Popular resistance forces Persian Gendarmerie | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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668 2 guns | 2,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Few | 245 killed | ||||||
The Battle of Robat Karim (Persian: نبرد رباط کریم, Russian: Бой под Рабат-Керимом, romanized: Boy pod Rabat-Kerimom) was fought by the Iranian people, around Robat Karim (near Tehran, Iran) during the First World War under the command of Heydar Latifiyan against the occupation of Iran by Russian forces. Although the result of this battle was the victory of the Russians, their goals were fulfilled and Iran was secured from the Central Powers, but in the larger goal, Iran was preserved during the First World War and never became a colony of any country.