On April 18, 1926, after half a month of arguments, British Parliament finally passed the resolution to wage war in Persia and Afghanistan.
In this regard, Churchill deserved enormous credit. If not for his silver tongue persuading the members of Parliament, they might have argued for another two or three years without reaching a conclusion.
Since 1923, anti-war sentiment had begun to erupt in Britain, and by 1926 it had reached its peak. The public opposed all foreign military actions.
Fortunately, this time the opponents were merely two small countries, so they failed to draw much public attention, allowing the resolution to pass so smoothly.
Of course, in terms of land area, Persia was not small at all. The Pahlavi Dynasty covered more territory than five British Isles put together.
But in terms of strength, they were a small country through and through. As a semi-colonial state, what strength could they possibly speak of?
Everyone knew that this was merely an insignificant local war. Indeed, if not for Bulgaria's existence, the British Empire could have forced the Pahlavi Dynasty into compromise through military threats alone.
Yet Ferdinand intended to turn this war into a quagmire that would bog the British down. On May 1, 1926, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the Pahlavi Dynasty, demanding that they hand over the Bulgarian criminals they had sheltered.
Naturally, the Pahlavi Dynasty could not hand them over. From 1918 until now, there had been no fewer than eighty or a hundred thousand criminals who had fled from Bulgaria into Persia. How were they supposed to find them in this day and age?
Unable to produce the people, the Pahlavi Dynasty was in deep trouble. The well-prepared Bulgarians produced evidence proving that, from 1918 to the present, terrorists had gone from Persia