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Since the accession of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini to power in Iran the politics of the Gulf region has been quite turbulent. Examples of political violence since 1979 include an attempted coup in Bahrain, the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, a series of attacks on US diplomatic facilities and personnel in the Gulf area, and the assassination attempt on the Emir of Kuwait. The manifest intent underlying these events is to create a political order in various countries in the area that either resembles the Islamic Republic of Iran, or, at least, is acceptable to the Khomeini regime.
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Ahrari, M.E. (1989). Khomeini’s Iran and Threats to Gulf Security. In: Ahrari, M.E. (eds) The Gulf and International Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10864-0_2
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