A comparative study of American foreign policy during the Nixon and Carter eras towards Iran during the second Pahlavi period

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

Mohammad Bidgoli ¹ , asghar rajabi dehborzoei ²

1 - Department of Law, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Education, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2022-11-27 Accepted : 2023-03-03 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Foreign policy, Second Pahlavi, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon,

Abstract :

Iran-US relations have a long history full of ups and downs. The Shah, who felt a power vacuum in the region with the withdrawal of England from the Persian Gulf, tried to fill this vacuum with the help of the United States. The present study seeks to answer the question of how the American foreign policy during the era of Nixon and Carter was towards Iran during the second Pahlavi period. . They had the same strategy for Iran's oil. The current research method is qualitative . The results show the fact that due to reasons including the geopolitical position of the Persian Gulf, the existence of oil reserves, the Soviet Union's attempt to penetrate this region as commonalities, and the differences of these two presidents, their differences in oil policy, as well as Nixon's friendly policy and Carter's human rights policy pointed out.