Brilliantly successful as a soldier and general, Nader Shah has little talent for statesmanship or administration, and Iran has become utterly exhausted during the later years of his reign.

Tens of thousands of people have perished in his ceaseless military campaigns, and the exactions of his tax gatherers have ruined the country's economy.

Nader Shah has always been harsh and ruthless, but these traits have become more pronounced as he grows older.

His suspicious nature and capricious cruelty have continued to grow, and wherever he goes he has people tortured and executed.

The consequence is that revolt after revolt against him has occurred.

Now growing insane, Nader Shah punishes his subjects by extorting money and blinding or executing ineffective officials; the result, from early 1745 through June 1746, is further Persian revolt.