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Aftermath
After the battle of Gulnabad in 1722 and until 1729, political control shifted from the Safavid dynasty to the succession of rule by the Ghilza’i afghans Mahmud, followed by his cousin Ashraf.. Most of the Safavi princes, as well as the Shah Sultan Husayn, were executed under the Ghilza supremacy. During that time, this political crisis motivated the Russian and Ottoman empire to declare war and conquer important Persian territories. Former Safavi-governed land in the Gilan and Azarbayjan area and in the Kurdish and Luristan territory were acquisitioned by both empires with the Treaty of Constantinople in 1724. This treaty was actually a settlement to avoid a potential war break-out, as the two empires wanted control of the north of Iran. Indeed, Russia’s Peter I had plans to build a trade route to India through the countries east of the Caspian Sea, while the Ottomans wanted Russia to stay away from that area due to its close proximity to Turkey. Ashraf wanted full sovereignty over Iran. To do so, in 1727, he made an arrangement to incorporate western Iran to the Ottoman empire; in exchange, they recognized him as ruler.

In 1729, the Persian military, under the rule of Shah Tahmasp II, son of ousted Shah Sultan Husayn, and his general Tahmasp Qoli Khan (later known as Nader Shah), defeated the Afghan army in Khorasan in a quest to restore Safafid domains, and Ashraf was killed. This led to a series of Campaigns of Nader Shah|victorious battles]] by the Safavids under brilliant military commandment by Nader. This concluded Afghan rule in 1730, followed by the restoration of the former Safavid political-economic system under Tahmasp II. Nader was proclaimed shah in 1736 after deposing the newly appointed shah, Abbas III, son of Tahmasp II. Now ruler of Persia, he set to conquer India, with the opening Battle of Karnal in 1739. In 1743, he went to war for the second time against the Ottoman Empire, which lasted until 1746. Nader Shah was assassinated by his own troops in 1747 while trying to dissolute an uprising against him in Khorasan.