Responding to the Soviet Challenge in the Persian Gulf

Publication Date: October 1989

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James A. Phillips

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Middle East

Type: Report

Coverage: Iran Soviet Union

Abstract:

In the long run, the great threat to the Persian Gulf is not Iran. It is the Soviet Union. What may be a new Soviet reasonableness in some areas of the world and in some old theaters of U.S.-Soviet confrontation should not mask what is happening in the Persian Gulf. There, Gorbachev challenges America. And America needs a policy to meet this challenge.