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2 - Iran, North Africa and Islamic Solidarity

from Part I - Establishing Relations (c. 1957–1970)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2024

Robert Steele
Affiliation:
Austrian Academy of Sciences
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The threat of Nasserism shaped the shah’s regional strategy in the 1950s and 1960s. This chapter explores the development of the shah’s policy of building relations with moderate allies in the Arab world who could help to contain and balance the radicalism of Nasser. The shah found two allies in North Africa: Tunisia under President Habib Bourguiba and Morocco under King Hassan II. Bourguiba and King Hassan were, like the shah, moderate rulers, with strong ties to the West, who shared the same concerns over Egyptian ambitions and the threat that Nasserism posed to regional stability. One of the strategies the shah developed, for which he sought the support of King Hassan in particular, was to challenge Nasser’s claims to leadership in the Islamic world, by attempting to form a separate grouping of Islamic countries. The ultimate manifestation of this was the Islamic Summit Conference, held in Rabat in 1969, in which King Hassan and the shah played leading roles.

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Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa
Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War
, pp. 41 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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