Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kafin juyin juya halin Iran, kasashen biyu sun kasance manufofin "ginshiƙan ginshiƙai" na Nixon a Gabas ta Tsakiya. Masarautun, musamman Iran tun bayan juyin mulkin da Amurka ta jagoranta
a 1953, sun yi kawance da Amurka don tabbatar da kwanciyar hankali a yankin Gulf kuma su yi aiki a matsayin katanga kan tasirin Soviet a lokacin Yakin Cacar Baki na Larabawa tsakanin Saudi Arabiya da Masar karkashin Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hadin gwiwar ya yi tasiri a kan dangantakar Saudiyya da Iran.