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Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah, the United States and Iran in the Cold War, Roham Alvandi

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Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah, the United States and Iran in the Cold War, Roham Alvandi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

865543954

Responsibility statement

Roham Alvandi

Sub title

the United States and Iran in the Cold War

Summary

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah offers a detailed account of three key historical episodes in the Nixon-Kissinger-Pahlavi partnership that shaped the global Cold War far beyond Iran's borders. It examines the emergence of Iranian primacy in the Persian Gulf as the Nixon administration looked to the shah to fill the vacuum created by the British withdrawal from the region in 1971. It then turns to the peak of the parnership after Nixon and Kissinger's historic 1972 visit to Iran, when the shah succeeded in drawing the United States into his covert war against Iraq in Kurdistan. Finally, it focuses on the decline of the partnership under Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, through a history of the failed negotiations from 1974 to 1976 for an agreement on U.S. nuclear exports to Iran. Taken together, these episodes map the rise of the fall of Iran's Cold War partnership with the United States during the decade of superpower détente, Vietnam, and Watergate

Table Of Contents

The United States and Iran in the Cold War -- "Protect me": The Nixon Doctrine in the Persian Gulf -- Iran's secret war with Iraq: the CIA and the Shah-Forsaken Kurds -- A Ford, not a Nixon: the United States and the Shah's nuclear dreams

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United States and Iran in the Cold War

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