Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I mua i te Huringa Iranian, ko nga whenua e rua i hangaia te kaupapa here "piripiri takirua" a te Nixon Doctrine i te Middle East. Ko ngā rangatiratanga, otirā ko Iran mai i te hurihanga ā-U.S.
i te tau 1953, i honoa ki te US ki te whakarite i te pumau i te rohe o te Moana-a-Kiwa me te mahi hei taiepa ki te mana o Soviet i te Pakanga Kore o Arapi i waenga o Saudi Arabia me Ihipa i raro i a Gamal Abdel Nasser. I mahi te hononga hei whakaaweawe i nga hononga Saudi-Iranian.