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Article: Iran and the United States: The Rise of the West Asian Regional Grouping
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- Journal of Third World Studies
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- April 1, 2001
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Middle East Peimani, Hooman. Iran and the United States: The Rise of the West Asian Regional Grouping. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. 135 pp.
The Iranian revolution of 1978-79 sought to transform the entire spectrum of the country's sociopolitical institutions. The United States, as the principal supporter of the Pahlavi monarchy, found itself reviled by the new revolutionary elite in Iran. Subsequent events, especially the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by the "Student Followers of the Line of Iman [Khomeini]" and the U.S. support of the Saddam Hussein's regime in its eight-year war against Iran, turned Washington and Tehran into bitter adversaries. The end of the Cold ...