Roham Alvandis article published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
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Roham Alvandi has published an article in the latest issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies entitled, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi and the Bahrain Question, 1968-1970.
Rohams article examines the role of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, in the secret Anglo-Iranian negotiations over Bahrain from January 1968 to March 1970. Despite a clear strategic imperative for abandoning Irans claim to Bahrain in the wake of the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, the Shah feared that such an act would be seen by the Iranian public as collusion with the British to surrender Iranian territory, thereby further eroding the Pahlavi monarchys precarious legitimacy. Drawing on British official papers and Iranian oral histories and memoirs, Roham explores for the first time the story of these secret negotiations and the extent to which the Shahs diplomacy was constrained by domestic considerations.
Roham Alvandi is reading for a DPhil in International Relations at St Catherines College. His thesis is entitled, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Cold War, 1969-1976. In September, he will be joining the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Lecturer in International History.
