Iranian demand to renounce the treaty

By the 1790s Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar emerged as the newest threat. Finding an interval of peace with northern, western, and central Persia secure, the Iranians demanded that Heraclius II renounce the treaty with Russia and re-accept Persian suzerainty in return for peace and the security of his kingdom. After Heraclius II refused to scrap the treaty with Russia, he invaded the Georgian kingdom, capturing and sacking Tbilisi. Heraclius appealed to his theoretical protector, Empress Catherine II, asking for at least 3,000 Russian troops, but he was ignored, leaving Georgia to fend off the Iranian threat alone.