Some were bought during the war, but most of it was afterwards.
What, you think it would take any more than 1 day to take Ashgabad which is as good as on the border and the Turkmens have just a few thousand men. And Aliyevbaijan would hardly hold on longer.
Iran took it on the chin from the Taliban after Mazar and the fall of the Hazarajat; a basement full of dead Iranian diplomats (followed by the lack of military response) and starving out the Hazarajat showed what the Taliban thought of Iran's alleged military prowess.
200 second hand Ukrainian tanks and 60,000 soldiers, now we're frightened.
Herat was Iranian territory before collapse of Safavids, Nadir Shah went to re-take it and Uzbeks were plundering all of Northern Iran, that's why military action had to be taken. But the last war was with the Turks.
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