Jungle Movement of Gilan

Jangali rebellion in Gilan
	Part of the Aftermath of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, the Aftermath of World War I, and the Revolutions of 1917–1923
	; Map showing Gilan (in red), the region where the rebellion took place
Date	October 1915 – October 1921 (~6 years)
Location	Gilan, Iran
Result	Anti-Jangali victory Annexation of the Persian SSR into Iran proper;
Territorial; changes	Brief secession of the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic from June 1920 to September 1921
Belligerents
Jangal Movement Committee of Union of Islam (late 1917–August 1918) ; Bolshevik Committee (from 1919); Socialist Committee (1919–20); Socialist Party (from May 1920); Soviet Gilan (from June 1920); Gilaki Revolutionary Committee; Council of People's Commissars of Gilan; ; Supported by: Germany (until 1918); Austria-Hungary (until August 1918); Ottoman Empire (until August 1918); Anzali Revolutionary Committee (1918) ; Baku Commune (1918); Mughan Soviet Republic (1918-1919); Soviet Russia (1920–21); Communist Party of Persia (1920); Kurdish tribes; Co-belligerents: Kurdish rebels (from 1918); Azadistan (1920); Khorasan (1921);	Qajar Iran Cossack Brigade; United Kingdom Dunsterforce (1918); North Persia Force; Russian Empire (until 1917); White movement (1918)
Commanders and leaders
Mirza Kuchik Khan; Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar (1917–21); Heshmat Taleqani (1918–19) ; Ja'far Pishevari (1921); Supported by:; Anton Cheliabin (1918) ; Stepan Shaumian (1918) ; Nariman Narimanov (1918); Kress von Kressenstein (1918); Bala Mamed Zuvandskiy; Fedor Raskolnikov (1920); Yakov Blumkin (1920); Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1920); "Budu" Mdivani; Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai (1920); Haydar Khan Amo-oghli (1920) X; Karim Khan; Qanbar Khan; Khalu Khasmat; Babakhan	Ahmad Shah Qajar; Gen. Nikolai Baratov (1915); Col. Lazar Bicherakhov (1918); Maj. Gen. Lionel Dunsterville (1918); Hassan Vosugh al-Dowleh (1918–20); Hassan Pirnia (1920); Col. Vsevolod Starosselsky (1918–20); FM Edmund Ironside (1920–21); Brigadier Gen. Reza Khan Pahlavi (1920–21)
Strength
Jangali forces: 3,000-8,000 (1918); Red Guards of the Anzali Revkom: 1,000 (1918)	Persian Cossack Brigade: ~8,000; Bicherakov's forces: 1,200; Dunsterforce: 350; North Persia Force: 500 (1920)

The Jangal (Forest or Jungle) Movement (Persian: جنبش جنگل) was a rebellion against the monarchist central government of the Sublime State of Iran in Gilan, which lasted from 1915 to 1921.