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This chapter compares the outcome of the nuclear dispute with those related to Iran’s oil nationalization dispute, which demonstrates the predicament of a developing country attempting to protect its interests despite objections from the imperialist powers. The chapter then recapitulates Iran’s situation versus the West by using the Center Periphery model. The chapter also reviews the penetration of Western imperialism in the region and its role in oil politics. The chapter further evaluates the impacts of the Islamic uprising in Iran on other countries in the region, and concludes by providing insights into what may lie ahead.
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Amir Taheri, Nest of Spies: America’s Journey to Disaster in Iran, Pantheon, 1989. See Chap. 12, pp. 211–231.
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Raymond Hinnebusch, The International Politics of the Middle East, Reprint ed. Manchester University Press, 2015, p. 3, pp. 18–20, and p. 304.
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These seven companies were BP (British), Shell (British and Dutch), and Exxon, Mobil, Gulf, Texaco, and Chevron (American).
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Galtung, p. 85.
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Sullivan, pp. 69–71.
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Economic Implications of Soviet-Iranian Agreements Involving Oil and Gas, CIA document released in 1998, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000381440.pdf.
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David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 210.
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Additional Protocol, https://www.iaea.org/topics/additional-protocol.
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Nicholas Onuf, “Center-Periphery Relations: What Kind of Rule, and Does It Matter,” All Azimuth 6, No. 1 (2017), pp. 5–16, also p. 10.
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Torbat, A.E. (2020). Recap and Conclusion. In: Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33766-7_13
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