By Sasan Fayazmanesh
When and why did the U.S. coverage of containment of Iran occur? How did it evolve? the place is it going?
Much has been stated concerning the US coverage of twin containment, rather because it relates to Iraq. notwithstanding, there was little in-depth research of this coverage in terms of Iran.
Sasan Fayazmanesh explores this frequently overlooked topic by means of studying the heritage of this coverage. The research comprises the function that the Carter and Reagan Administrations performed within the Iran-Iraq struggle, the varied sanctions imposed on Iran through the Clinton management and the competitive and confrontational coverage towards Iran followed via the George W. Bush management after the occasions of September eleven, 2001.
This topical learn synthesises various fundamental resources, together with firsthand studies, newspaper articles and digital media, and offers a coherent research of the ebbs and flows within the US pondering on Iran and Iraq.
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S. and Iraq did not maintain diplomatic relations, a Dec. S. commodities over the past few months with financing from conservative Arab states. 6 30 The United States and Iran The removal of Iraq from the list of “terrorist states,” however, did more to prevent Saddam Hussein from being defeated. The action allowed the US to send to Iraq “dual-use” goods, such as Hughes Helicopters that were supposed to be used only for civilian purposes. 7 In addition, a US court case in the 1990s revealed that the CIA used a Chilean arms dealer, Carlos Cardoen, to sell arms to Iraq in order to halt its slide toward defeat.
S. from pursuing improved relations with Saddam, or curb the enthusiasm for the Aqaba pipeline—a project promoted by a company that had given the Reagan administration not just its secretary of state, but also its secretary of defense, Caspar Weinberger, who had been Bechtel’s general counsel. ” The dual containment policy in the 1980s 35 Donald Rumsfeld’s second trip to Iraq in March of 1984 is also noteworthy. On the same day that the United Nations team issued its report about Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iran, Rumsfeld was in Iraq.
It was also contrary to the Algiers Accords, alluded to in the previous chapter, signed in 1980 between the US and Iran to end the hostage crisis. The Algiers Accords specifically stated: “The United States pledges that it is and from now will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically and militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs” (quoted in Alerassool 1993: 121–2). Yet this agreement between the US and Iran did not prevent the Reagan Administration from actively supporting Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran.