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ID182847
Title ProperAnti-Aryan Moment
Other Title InformationDecolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran
LanguageENG
AuthorKashani-Sabet, Firoozeh
Summary / Abstract (Note)In 1946, the entertainer and activist Paul Robeson pondered America's intentions in Iran. In what was to become one of the first major crises of the Cold War, Iran was fighting a Soviet aggressor that did not want to leave. Robeson posed the question, “Is our State Department concerned with protecting the rights of Iran and the welfare of the Iranian people, or is it concerned with protecting Anglo-American oil in that country and the Middle East in general?” This was a loaded question. The US was pressuring the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops after its occupation of the country during World War II. Robeson wondered why America cared so much about Soviet forces in Iranian territory, when it made no mention of Anglo-American troops “in countries far removed from the United States or Great Britain.” An editorial writer for a Black journal in St. Louis posed a different variant of the question: Why did the American secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, concern himself with elections in Iran, Arabia or Azerbaijan and yet not “interfere in his home state, South Carolina, which has not had a free election since Reconstruction?”
`In' analytical NoteInternational Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 53, No.4; Nov 2021: p. 691 - 702
Journal SourceInternational Journal of Middle East Studies 2021-12 53, 4