The Us-Iranian Relationship During The Early Cold War Years (1945-1954)

Foreign relations play an unprecedentedly important role in a country’sdevelopment. The formulation of foreign policies in all countries is always beneficialfor national interests. As a superpower, the United States has rich experience offormulating and utilizing foreign policies. Its foreign policy formulation has itsspecific purpose, which was to serve its own national interests. In1941, Britain andthe Soviet invaded Iran. As a member of the Allies, the United States managed to enterIron as a powerful country. During World War II, the United States fully realized thesignificance of Iran in its oil resource and strategic position. For its own nationalinterests, during the first decade after World War II, the United States crowded theSoviet and Britain out of Iran one after another by taking advantage of the AzerbaijanCrisis and Mosadeq’s Oil Nationalization Movement, and established its absolutesuperiority. During this period, Iran adopted “The Third Power Diplomacy” andintroduced the United States into its country for the sake of its national interests andpreventing itself from becoming a dependency of Britain and Soviet. As a result, Irangradually freed itself from British and Soviet control, and gained an opportunity todevelop economic independently. Therefore, the first decade after World War II was ofprofound meaning to the US-Iran relations and great value to study, which is welltestified in the discussion on the US-Iran relationship in this thesis.