Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

Quality:

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran - 1941 invasion during World War II. This event is the 924^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 924^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1587 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran is on the 924^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 71 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2161 in December 2025
• Global: #4555 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24487 in March 2026
• Global: #4972 in March 2026

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran		90.7937
2	Hungarian (hu) Irán elleni brit–szovjet invázió		84.9657
3	Russian (ru) Иранская операция		79.8281
4	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya–SSRİ qoşunlarının İrana müdaxiləsi		76.3936
5	Urdu (ur) ایران پر اینگلو سوویت حملہ		69.6164
6	Persian (fa) اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی دوم		57.0408
7	Chinese (zh) 英苏入侵伊朗		53.4758
8	Armenian (hy) Անգլո-խորհրդային ներխուժում Իրան		51.56
9	Norwegian (no) Den anglo-sovjetiske invasjonen av Iran		46.8521
10	Turkish (tr) Birleşik Krallık ve Sovyetler Birliği'nin İran'ı işgali		44.5678

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran		3 375 350
2	Persian (fa) اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی دوم		2 377 538
3	Russian (ru) Иранская операция		1 035 747
4	German (de) Anglo-sowjetische Invasion Irans		435 788
5	Japanese (ja) イラン進駐 (1941年)		238 133
6	Spanish (es) Invasión anglo-soviética de Irán		174 700
7	Chinese (zh) 英苏入侵伊朗		154 480
8	French (fr) Invasion anglo-soviétique de l'Iran		154 194
9	Polish (pl) Brytyjsko-sowiecka inwazja na Iran		153 680
10	Arabic (ar) الغزو الإنجليزي السوفيتي لإيران		120 681

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran		18 115
2	Persian (fa) اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی دوم		15 531
3	Russian (ru) Иранская операция		3 612
4	Japanese (ja) イラン進駐 (1941年)		1 097
5	German (de) Anglo-sowjetische Invasion Irans		946
6	Spanish (es) Invasión anglo-soviética de Irán		802
7	Chinese (zh) 英苏入侵伊朗		724
8	French (fr) Invasion anglo-soviétique de l'Iran		563
9	Turkish (tr) Birleşik Krallık ve Sovyetler Birliği'nin İran'ı işgali		374
10	Polish (pl) Brytyjsko-sowiecka inwazja na Iran		366

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran		409
2	Persian (fa) اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی دوم		179
3	German (de) Anglo-sowjetische Invasion Irans		172
4	Russian (ru) Иранская операция		134
5	French (fr) Invasion anglo-soviétique de l'Iran		88
6	Spanish (es) Invasión anglo-soviética de Irán		65
7	Chinese (zh) 英苏入侵伊朗		61
8	Japanese (ja) イラン進駐 (1941年)		50
9	Polish (pl) Brytyjsko-sowiecka inwazja na Iran		47
10	Ukrainian (uk) Англо-радянське вторгнення в Іран		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی دوم		3
2	Arabic (ar) الغزو الإنجليزي السوفيتي لإيران		2
3	English (en) Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya–SSRİ qoşunlarının İrana müdaxiləsi		1
5	Spanish (es) Invasión anglo-soviética de Irán		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Irán elleni brit–szovjet invázió		1
7	Dutch (nl) Anglo-Sovjet invasie van Iran		1
8	Tamil (ta) ஈரான் மீதான ஆங்கில-சோவியத் படையெடுப்பு		1
9	Turkish (tr) Birleşik Krallık ve Sovyetler Birliği'nin İran'ı işgali		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Anh-Liên Xô xâm lược Iran		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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