Nader Khan Drives the Afghans from Persia

January 1, 1729

A tribal chieftain from Khorasan, Nader Khan Afshar took service with the exiled Safavid claimant Tahmasp and began a campaign that would expel the Ghilzai Afghans from Isfahan. A new soldier of fortune had emerged. Within six years he would make himself shah. Persia's long convalescence would be his, and his alone.