THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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Saudi Arabia was a major ally with Iran, so they distanced themselves diplomatically from the U.S.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia grew closer diplomatically due to the oil industry in the area.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia overthrew the revolutionary government of Iran the following year.
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Iran threatened to invade Saudi Arabia, but due to solid Iran-U.S. diplomacy the invasion never happened
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following the March 1979 Islamic Republic referendum, in which 98% of Iranian voters approved the country’s shift to an Islamic republic, the new government began efforts to draft the present-day Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Khomeini emerged as the Supreme Leader of Iran in December 1979.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why the conflict: Also referred to as the Middle Eastern Cold War, the Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflict is a struggle to become the most powerful and authoritative nation in the Muslim world. One of the major reasons for the feud is the religious differences between the two countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Iranian Revolution had a number of unique and significant characteristics. It produced profound change at great speed and replaced the world’s oldest empire with a theocracy based on Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (or velayat-e faqih).
Detailed explanation-4: -Recent News. Iranian Revolution, also called Islamic Revolution, Persian Enqelāb-e Eslāmī, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic.