Author: Ralph A. Cossa
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993029
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Author: Ralph A. Cossa
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Ralph A. Cossa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568061238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Includes: historical perspective, Soviet military posture, Soviet strategic interests, implications (the Soviet threat, effect of recent developments, the road ahead), & toward a U.S. strategy. Covers: withdrawal from Afghanistan, Perestroika, Glasnost, & Soviet-Iranian rapprochement. Extensive bibliography. 4 maps.

Author: Ralph Cossa
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781478200024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The invasion began early one August morning. Invoking Article Six of the 1921 Treaty of Friendship, which states, "The Soviet Government shall have the right to send its army into Persia in order to take the necessary military steps in its own defense," the Soviets sent their forces marching toward Tehran. Although tensions in the region had been mounting steadily and strong Soviet diplomatic protests had reached Tehran earlier in the month, the Iranians were surprised by the attack. The invasion carefully followed the plan laid out several months earlier by the soviet General Staff. A two-pronged attack into the northwestern Azerbaijan Province quickly envelope Tabriz, Iran's second-largest city, before progressing onward toward Zanjan, Qazvin, and ultimately to the western approaches to Tehran. Another two-pronged attack was launched simultaneously against Khorasan Province in the northeast. Iran's third-largest city, Mashhad, quickly fell to the Soviets. A third Soviet force, along the eastern Caspian Sea coast, complemented this effort against Mashad and helped cut off Tehran from the east. All told, 40,000 Soviet troops participated in the initial attack, with the occupation force quickly swelling to nearly 100,000 combat troops. Soviet air forces supported the advancing ground armies and also conducted a highly effective, largely unchallenged air campaign of terror against virtually all major northern Iranian towns and cities, including Tehran itself. These indiscriminate air attacks added to the atmosphere of panic and intimidation. In the face of this swift and powerful ground and air onslaught, Iranian resistance caved in. Within a week, the major northern cities were under Soviet control. Within two weeks, Tehran was effectively cut off from both east and west and the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) was urging the central government to accept Soviet terms. Within three weeks, as Soviet troops reached the outskirts of Tehran, Iran's senior leadership prepared to flee the country and leave behind a new regime - one willing to accept Soviet domination over northern Iran.

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428981950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Author: Ariane Tabatabai
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838609776
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states and their governments each consider the relative decline of Western economic hegemony as an opportunity. Yet cooperation between them remains fragmentary. The end of Western sanctions and the Iranian nuclear deal; the Syrian conflict; new institutions in Central and East Asia: in all these areas and beyond, the potential for unity or divergence is striking. In this new and comprehensive study, Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary address the substance of this `triple axis' in the realms of energy, trade, and military security. In particular they scrutinise Iran-Russia and the often overlooked field of Iran-China relations. Their argument - that interactions between the three will shape the world stage for decades to come - will be of interest to anyone looking to understand the contemporary international security puzzle.

Author: John M. O'Sullivan (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Author: James Harlon Williams
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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Charles Kupchan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415610540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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This volume provides a broadly comparative and historical re-examination of the fundamental strategic dilemmas that confront the Western world in the Persian Gulf region. This systematic study of how the West has defined and dealt with its security interests in this region reveals three central strategic dilemmas: strategy versus capability, globalism versus regionalism, and unilateralism versus collectivism. The first part of the book focuses on US policy with particular emphasis on the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The author explains why there has been a persistent gap between American perceptions of the Middle East and the political and strategic realities of the region. The second part of the book examines the frustrated efforts of NATO members to form a cooperative response to their collective interests in the region.

Author: Jiri Valenta
Publisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This memorandum centers its attention primarily upon Afghanistan and Iran. Soviet interests in Iran are inextricably connected to the Afghanistan issue since a Soviet foothold in the latter presents both opportunities and risks in a policy aimed at, if not control, then influence projection into Iran. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, then, can be viewed not only in the context of securing stability on the USSR's southern border, but also in the broader context of an extension of Soviet hegemony into the Persian Gulf.