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Conversations with History: U.S. Iran and Saudi Arabia with Andrew Scott Cooper

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Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes author Andrew Scott Cooper to discuss his new book "The Oil Kings." Focusing on the geopolitics of the Middle East in the 1970's, the study centers on the complex relationship between Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah of Iran. Relying on recently declassified documents, Cooper describes the international environment of the period and the implications of the Nixon doctrine for the Shah's foreign policy. Revealing the contradiction between the Shah's dependence on the rise of oil prices and the need to fund his new military role, Cooper explains how this contradiction resulted in the Shah's downfall and the implosion of Iran. He demonstrates the interplay between the collapse of the relationship between Iran and the U.S. and the emergence of Saudi Arabia as the guarantor of price and supply in the oil market and America's most important ally in the Persian Gulf. Series: "Conversations with History" [11/2011] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22929]
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It depends what you want to learn about specifically.

For a general introduction there is an excellent 3 part BBC documentary "Iran and the West":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_the_West

If you want an inside account of things from a 'Prince': "Blood and Oil:: Memoirs of a Persian Prince"

For fascinating insight into Iran's geopolitics, economics and the context of the 1979 revolution (with major implications for the current global oil market) consider Andrew Scott Cooper's excellent book: The Oil Kings

here's an article from 2014 by Cooper to whet your appetite: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/18/why-would-the-saudis-cra...

and here's quite a good interview with Cooper from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXCx8oNvoo

His more recent book (not out yet): The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Heaven-Pahlavis-Imperial/dp/0...

But be aware that as always, behind every tyrant walks a cadre of sycophants with bloody mops attempting to twist history & exonerate the guilty. IMHO Hooman Majd, Reza Aslan and Trita Parsi are all varying degrees of apologists for the Islamic regime.

If you have a more specific interest, let me know and perhaps I'll be able to recommend something else.

⬐ bronz
Wow. Thank you for this very comprehensive answer.
⬐ kzahel
I really appreciate your sharing these sources.

For anyone else interested, I found the BBC series Iran and the West is currently available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-Wu1jYY9U

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