Safeer Bhatti

Caught Between Ambitions Safeer Bhatti

The United States did not win the Cold War in 1991. It first showed signs of winning the Cold War in August 1953 after the overthrow of the Mossadegh regime in Iran and the installation of the Shah of Iran. Throughout the 1950s the United States weakened the Soviet Union's position, hegemony, and oil diplomacy in Iran, which at the time was the most powerful nation in the Middle East. The United States won the Cold War in the second revolution of Iran's history by weakening Soviet aggression, trade, and communist influences through American foreign policy and aid, the sugar monopoly, and trade agreements with Iran, the United States and other allies. The United States needed Iran to win the regional Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Middle East was the key to power and hegemony. Whoever controlled Iran would control the Middle East. In the 1950s both the Soviet Union and the United States were at their height of competition. After the United States defeated the Soviet Union in the 1950s, it created an imbalance in the Cold War, weakening the Soviet Union in the 1960s and leading to its subsequent fall in 1991.