īrān dar dawrah-yi qaḥtī: Persiska (Farsi) 1402

The Iranian Famine of 1917-1919 was a period of widespread starvation and disease in Iran (Iran) under Qajar rule during World War I. Famine occurred in the territory of Iran, which was occupied by Iran despite the declaration of neutrality. British, Russian, and Ottoman imperial forces whose occupation contributed to the famine. Until now, few historians have investigated the famine, making it a neglected subject in modern history. The book "Persia During the Famine" by "William Brittlebank" is one of the few types of research done in this field. The number of people who died between 1917 and 1919 due to starvation and diseases including cholera, plague, and typhus, as well as the 1918 flu, has been variously put at 2 million, 6 million, and 8 to 10 million. Various factors such as consecutive seasonal droughts, seizure, and confiscation of food by occupying armies, hoarding, and war profiteering have caused and contributed to famine. In November 1915, the price of one bushel (100 kilos) of wheat increased to twenty tomans after selling the entire grain warehouse in the southeast of Sistan province. The British forces of the Russian soldiers blocked all the roads in the northeastern province of Khorasan and prohibited any transportation of grain except the roads intended for the Russian army. The demand for pack animals, mules, and camels for the Khuzestan oil industry and the British and Russian armed forces seriously disrupted the country's transportation network and disrupted the distribution of food and other goods throughout the country, with disastrous consequences. During the war, the cost of transporting grain was higher than planting it in many areas of Iran. All this made the living conditions of the poor more terrible