Persian famine of 1917 1918

As much as one quarter of the population living in the north of Iran died in The Great Persian Famine. Although the research of Mohammad Gholi Majd alleges as many as 8-10 million killed, this is based on an original population estimate of 19 million. Other estimates place the original population at only 11 million, disputing Majd's numbers. The Iranian government has stated that The Great Famine of Persian was caused by the British (this is disputed, should be seen in context of bad Iran–United Kingdom relations) and that 8-10 million people died, this death toll also being in the American Archives.
As many as 8 to 10 million Iranians perished because of starvation and disease during the great famine of 1917-1919 (1296-1298 Hijri Calendar), making it the greatest calamity in Persia's history. In book of , Mohammad Gholi Majd argues that Persia was the greatest victim of World War One (Great War) and also the victim of possibly the worst genocide of the twentieth century. Using U.S. State Department records, as well as Persian and British sources, Majd describes and documents a veritable holocaust about which practically nothing has been written before.
That virtually no one in the United States, and much of the overall West, would know about the famine in Iran is quite understandable. Britain controlled the news about the war and most of the American elite that shaped the news tended to be Anglophile.