The plunder seized from Delhi was so rich that Nader stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years following his return.This section: Axworthy pp.1–16, 175–210 Nader Shah's victory against the crumbling Mughal Empire in the East meant that he could afford to turn to the West and face the Ottomans. The Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I initiated the Ottoman-Iranian War (1743–1746), in which Muhammad Shah closely cooperated with the Ottomans until his death in 1748.
