caa a22 4500 386370214 CHVBK 20180307111955.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800032530 doi S0020743800032530 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800032530 Lawson Fred H. Department of Government Mills College The Iranian Crisis of 1945-1946 and the Spiral Model of International Conflict [Elektronische Daten] [Fred H. Lawson] Diplomatic historians of all persuasions agree that the Iranian Crisis of 1945-1946 played a considerable part in initiating the Cold War. For revisionist writers, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place during these months resulted from American efforts to carve out a sphere of influence in the oil-producing areas of the Middle East. By the autumn of 1945, according to this view, U.S. firms had gained controlling interests in the consortia holding exclusive rights to work the extensive petroleum deposits located in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain; more importantly, Iranian officials were making repeated overtures to American concerns in an effort to counterbalance established British interests with more dynamic ones based in the United States. When the Red Army prevented the government in Tehran from suppressing separatist movements in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan in December 1945, the Truman Administration manipulated the Security Council of the United Nations into mandating a Soviet withdrawal from northern Iran. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-08), 307-326 0020-7438 21:3<307 1989 21 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032530 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032530 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lawson Fred H. Department of Government Mills College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-08), 307-326 0020-7438 21:3<307 1989 21 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge