Battle of Robat Karim

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Battle of Robat Karim
Part of the Persian campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Russo-Persian Wars And The Caucasus Campaign
Date 27 December [O.S. 9 December] 1915[1] Location Robat Karim, Tehran Province, Iran 35°28′55″N 51°04′51″E / 35.48194°N 51.08083°E / 35.48194; 51.08083 Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire Armenian Volunteers	Qajar Iran 1915
Commanders and leaders
Nikolai Baratov	Ahmad Shah Qajar Heydar Latifiyan [fa] †
Units involved
Russian Caucasus Army Armenian Volunteers	Popular resistance forces Persian Gendarmerie
Strength
668 2 guns[2]	2,000[3]
Casualties and losses
Few	245 killed[4]

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.