Khorasan campaign of Nader Shah

Nader's Conquest of Khorasan
Part of Nader's Campaigns

An accurate map of Persia by Emanuel Bowen showing the names of territories during the Persian Safavid dynasty and Mughal Empire of India (c. 1500–1747)
Date1726–1727
Location
Result Safavid victory
Territorial
changes
The capital of Khorasan, Mashad, comes under loyalist control
Belligerents
Safavid loyalists Separatists in Khorasan
Commanders and leaders
Tahmasp II(nominal)
Nader
Fathali Khan Qajar Executed
Malek Mahmoud Sistani
Pir Mohammad
Strength
30,000 Unknown
Casualties and losses
negligible minimal

The conquest of Khorasan (Persian: جنگ خراسان) by Safavid loyalist forces against separatists in Khorasan was Nader Shah's first major military campaign which he waged on behalf of the new Safavid pretender to the throne, Tahmasp II. It would propel him into the centre of the political landscape of war-torn early eighteenth-century Persia.