# Maritime Political Geography, Vol. 1

By **Mojtahed-Zadeh, Dr Pirouz**

- ISBN-13: 9781612332956
- Publisher: Universal Publishers
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 242
- Published: 16 Apr 2015
- Language: en
- Categories: History, Middle East, Social Science, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Arabian Peninsula

## About this book

This book magnifies only one instance of Iran’s geopolitical role in the  Persian Gulf in the interim period between the British withdrawal of  forces from, and the American arrival in that region. Two centuries of  Pax-Britannica was the period of territorial organization of the region,  which resulted in the creation of a number of small states or emirates  defining territories and boundaries for which caused huge territorial  complications with the older states of the region. Pax-Britannica was  removed at the end of 1971 without settling these difficult issues. Yet,  immediately after their departure from the Persian Gulf, Iran began the  initiative of settling territorial differences among the littoral  states. Negotiations for the delimitation of maritime boundaries in the  Persian Gulf which started in 1968 with Saudi Arabia continued with each  and every Arab state of the region and by the mid-1970s all maritime  boundaries of Iran with her Arab neighbours were settled, including  legal settlement of the issue of the islands extensively examined in  this book. In 1975, the age-old Iran-Iraq territorial and boundary  disputes were settled in Shatt al Arab, and in the same year Iran's  initiative of settling territorial disputes went beyond the region of  the Persian Gulf and the Shah quelled the fire of separatist movements  in Dhufar of Oman as well as intervening in Egyptian Israeli disputes  and settle their differences over the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli author,  Samuel Segev admits in his 1981 publications on Israeli secret relations  in the Middle East that "The Shah was the originator of the idea to  mediate between Anwar Sadat and Golda Meir."   Another instance of the Iranian endeavour to safeguard Arab territorial  integrity was Iran's undertaking in eradication of threats to Oman's  territorial integrity in the early 1970s. Within three years Iranian  soldiers defended with their lives Oman's territorial integrity in  Dhufar Province in the face of a fierce communist separatist movement  that British forces could not eradicate in twelve years.  

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