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U.S. Intervention in Middle East Conflicts:
Iran-Iraq Conflicts:
The relations between Iran and Iraq were hugely affected by Islamic Revolution as Iraq's president was worried that the emerging Shi'a regime in Iran would provoke uprisings in Iraq. Actually, Iraq became increasingly worried that the Islamic Revolution that emerged in Iran could spread to the country and topple the existing regime while replacing it with a theocracy. As Iraq's president was concerned that the Algiers Accord would be dismantled and not followed or obeyed because of the new Islamic Republic, he regarded this as a serious threat to the country's borders and sovereignty. Iraq became a more populist country several years before the emergence of the Islamic Revolution as the doors to trade liberalization were opened in the country. A war against Iran was considered as a suitable option by Saddam Hussein, Iraq's president, to build nationalist sentiments and spirit and lessen the likelihood of a Shi'a uprising or Iran's ability to obtain ideological ground in Iraq (Jacek, 2011).
As part of its intervention strategies...
Since the beginning of the conflict, the United States was supportive of the war because of the fear factor and concerns of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. There are various reasons that have been attributed to America's intervention in the Iraq-Iran war as part of U.S. foreign policy. First, America viewed the conflict as an opportunity to recoup its losses from the Iranian revolution as its main goal was to weaken and confine Iran in order to restrict its regional influence. Secondly, after weakening Iran through squandering most of the human and material resources of the revolution, the other goal of America's intervention on the conflict was to weaken Iraq. Weakening of Iraq was to ensure that it wouldn't develop as a regional power that could challenge U.S. dominance.
Iraq-Kuwait Conflict:
In the period between 1989 and 1990, the Kuwait kingdom was over-producing oil and lessening its costs to an extent that Iraq was losing approximately $14 billion in revenue. As…
Bibliography:
Becker, Brian, "U.S. Conspiracy to Initiate the War Against Iraq," The Commission of Inquiry
for the International War Crimes Tribunal, last modified May 11, 1991, http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-consp.htm
Jacek, Brian, "U.S. Role in the Iran-Iraq War and its Negative Implications on U.S.-Iran
Relations," Kulna: For All of Us, last modified March 23, 2011, http://kulna.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/us-role-in-the-iran-iraq-war-and-its-negative-implications-on-us-iran-relations/
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