Original sentence: Although a neutral nation, Reza Shah Pahlavi had brought Iran closer to Germany.Following Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union became allies.For the Soviets, Iran was a country of extreme strategic importance.The German Wehrmacht was steadily advancing through the Soviet Union and there were few ways for the Allies to get desperately needed American Lend-Lease supplies to the Soviets.This concerned the British who feared that the Abadan Oil Refinery, owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, might fall into German hands — the refinery produced eight million tons of oil in 1940 and was thus a crucial part of the Allied war effort
Edited sentence: After the invasion some Axis agents contacted Persian tribesmen to enact sabotage and disturb the Persian Corridor to cut-off the Allied supply route.Britain and the Soviet Union, both fearing Germany's push into the Soviet Union may open the door for the capture of Abadans oil refineries, put pressure on Iran.In August 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran.In Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, who had been in power since 1923, had a fondness for fascism and supported Hitler from the second he came to power.In addition, Reza Shah refused to expel German technicians and denied Britain and the Soviet Union the use of Iran’s railways.Iran had already been using the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as a way to supply Hitler's troops in Czechoslovakia and Austria.Reza Shah allowed German agents to operate in Tehran and use the city as a base to stir up British and Jews in the region.Reza Shah planned to divert all of his country’s oil shipments from the Allies to Germany.Reza Shah was forced to abdicate his throne and was exiled first to Mauritius, then to Johannesburg, South Africa.Reza Shah was the one responsible for influencing the 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Baghdad.The city also housed German, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian legations.They demanded that the Iranian government expel all Germans from Iran and allow Britain and the Soviet Union to use Iranian territory to train, supply, and be used as a transport corridor for shipping arms to the Soviet Union.This only increased hostilities and pro-German rallies in Tehran