Arms Transfers under Nixon by Sorley Lewis;

Author:Sorley, Lewis; [Sorley, Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Accompanying that statement of ‟Our Current Policy toward Iran” was a briefing paper for the president, which observed that the shah was ‟suddenly and drastically setting forth on a program of broad social reform” and that

The Shah’s reform program should in the long run bring added stability and prosperity to Iran. It coincides in large measure with what we have long been urging on the Shah [elsewhere the paper recalls that the United States had been trying to convince Iran that ‟the greatest threat to Iranian security” was ‟the insufficiency of economic development and internal reforms”] and he considers that his course was approved in the President’s February message of congratulations.

But for the short run it has involved the Shah in additional risks. He has aroused the animosity of the dispossessed elite and the fanatical clergy, and having not yet consolidated the support of the emancipated peasantry, he is dependent in the immediate future to a greater degree than ever on the support of the military and security forces. Although these forces might not be able to put down a coordinated country-wide rising of liberal and urban elements, such a development is unlikely. It is believed that the support of the military and security forces can probably deal with any internal security problems likely to arise.37

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