US policies toward the Soviet Union and the crisis in Azerbaijan during the Qavam period (1945-1947)

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Faculty of Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

World War II led Iran to engage in global events unwittingly and occupied by the three powers; but with the end of the war and the non-evacuation of the Soviet forces from Iran, the Cold War first sparkles were struck between the two ideological poles, the Soviet Union and the United States. While the USSR sought to obtain Iranian north petroleum, by pressure, stood in front of the United States with the policy of preserving Iran on the front of the Western countries, against the Soviet Union. Though in many researches United States ultimatum has been referred, as the main source, to the Soviet Union for evacuation of Iran, but the study shows that such ultimatum has no historical validity; Therefore, the question is that the US with using what tools and tactics, were able to carry out its goal of expelling the Soviet Union from Iran and maintain Iran on the liberalism front. To answer this question, using a historical method based on description and analysis, tried to answer by examining US State Department documents. The findings show that US by using two types of international instruments, such as the Security Council and the alliance with the UK, and domestic instruments such as cooperation with the Shah and the National Parliament, tried to restrict USSR in Containment policy.

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پی نوشت .
[1]. فصل پنجم پیمان اتحاد با دولت ایران: «پس‌ازآنکه مخاصمه بین دول متحده با دولت آلمان و شرکای آن به موجب یک یا چند قرارداد متارکه جنگ متوقف شد، دول متحده حداکثر تا شش ما پس‌ازآن نیروهای خود را از خاک ایران بیرون خواهند برد؛ و اگر پیمان صلح مابین آن‌ها بسته شود ولو اینکه قبل از شش ماه بعد از متارکه باشد بلافاصله نیروهای خود را بیرون خواهند برد».
[1]- رک: غلامرضا نجاتی، تاریخ سیاسی بیست‌وپنج‌ساله ایران، ج 1، تهران، رسا، 1371، ص 58؛ پیتر آوری، تاریخ معاصر ایران، ج 2، ترجمه: محمد رفیعی مهرآبادی، تهران، موسسه مطبوعاتی عطائی، چ 1، 1363، ص 214.
 
Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History
Volume 10, Issue 20
September 2019
Pages 117-147

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  • Receive Date: 27 September 2018
  • Revise Date: 09 March 2019
  • Accept Date: 06 May 2019

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