Iraq's alliance with the Shah | IMGpapers 1980

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Wata was the , Iranian February 1979 and prevent Surthetrevolu nonary upneavals. IRAQ's turn towards the West dates from 1975, when a new treaty was signed with the Shah of The Shah agreed to stop all aid to the Kurdish rebels in Iraq in return for the division of the Shatt alArab waterway and renunciation of Arab sovereignty over three islands in the Gulf seized by the Shah in • This agreement had far-reaching consequences. Iraq also agreed to halt its 'subversive' propaganda in the Gulf emirates and the Arab minorities in Iran, to cut the flow of arms to South Yemen and thence to the Dhofar rebels fighting against the Sultan of Oman, and to stop aiding the rebels in Baluchistan.

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The net result was a growing pattern of collaborabetween the Iraqi Iranian oppositionists who refuge in Iraq were handed over to the Shah's executioners. Finally, as the revolt in Iran assumed mass proportions 1978, Ayatollah Khomeini as a token of goodwill to the Its present actions are thus part of a logical sequence of events. time Iraq began to open up its and the Shah. had sought Iraq expelled the present his regime.

Guardian recently put it, 'If not as America's gendarme in guarantee of stability in the Gulf, least as vital oil-rich region'.

This is why Hussein's invasion of Iran has been hailed by, among others, the royalist regimes in Jordan, Morocco, Cairo SAUDI EGYPT Riyadh a ARABIA SUDAN Djibouti Me Chafenget-2 Octob

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