Alvandi, Roham 
ORCID: 0009-0005-3656-8110
(2010)
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi and the Bahrain question, 1968-1970.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (2).
pp. 159-177.
ISSN 1353-0194
Abstract
This paper examines the role of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, in the secret Anglo-Iranian negotiations over Bahrain from January 1968 to March 1970. Despite a clear strategic imperative for abandoning Iran's claim to Bahrain in the wake of the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, the Shah feared that such an act would be seen by the Iranian public as collusion with the British to surrender Iranian territory, thereby further eroding the Pahlavi monarchy's precarious legitimacy. Drawing on British official papers and Iranian oral histories and memoirs, this paper explores for the first time the story of these secret negotiations and the extent to which the Shah's diplomacy was constrained by domestic considerations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13530194.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | International History Middle East Centre |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2011 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32744 |
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