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1980s: The United States, Iran and Iraq
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 25, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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September 1980
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Iraq invaded Iran
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Saddam believed that the Iranian                      had weakened Iran militarily
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1979 Iranian Revolution
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the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty
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the ruling house of Iran from 1925 until 1979
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Mohammad Reza               
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the Shah of Iran
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ruled from         -1979
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wanted to seize territory
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a short, victorious war would put Iraq in dominance in the region
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not          majority Iran
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but            governed Iraq
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not Persian religious zealots
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but secular oriented Arab                   
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Ba'athism
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means "renaissance"/"resurrection"
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an Arab nationalist ideology that promotes the development and creation of a unified          state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a progressive revolutionary government
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no one ever took Saddam Hussein for being a                  genius
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he miscalculated
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got into more than his army could handle
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Iran-Iraq war lasted            years
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January 20, 1981
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Ronald Reagan's inauguration
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Iran released Americans who had been held captive for        days
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enabled them to focus on the Iraqi threat
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both countries needed to acquire weapons
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Iraq had suppliers in the Soviet Union and             
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Iran need to repair its relations with the West
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releasing the hostages was one way of doing that
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Iraq-Iran war
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U.S. official stance was to            taking sides
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U.S. voted in favor of UN Security Council Resolution       
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passed days after the Iraqi invasion
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Iran succeed by 1982 in turning the tables
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Iraq now on the                   
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U.S. did not want Iran to become the dominant power in the Gulf
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Secretary of State George               
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an Iran victory would intimidate and inundate US allies in the region
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U.S. abandoned neutral posture to rescue Saddam Hussein
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Iraq had                its relations with the U.S. in 1967 in the wake of the Six-Day War
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Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld
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a once and future Secretary of               
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goal was to get Iraq to          toward the United States
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Reagan made the United States a party to the Iran-Iraq War on the side of Saddam Hussein
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resumed relations
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removed Iraq from the list of state sponsors of                   
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started providing Hussein with                          about Iranian troop movements
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U.S. helped Iraq get                from France and other Western nations
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Operation               
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aimed to prevent Iran from acquiring new weapons
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U.S. approved Iraqi purchases of made-in-USA                   , transport planes, helicopters and navigation aids
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allowed Iraq to buy on             
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Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons on Iran and his own people
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The              Doctrine
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January 23, 1980
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the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the                Gulf
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a response to the Soviet Union's intervention of Afghanistan in         
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modeled on the wording on the              Doctrine
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        , pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey
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        ,              Doctrine, further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention
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yet the United States was aiding a power that was also seeking preeminence in the Persian Gulf
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Iran remembered the          coup in Iran backed by the United States
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