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Pre-Islamic Relationship Between Iran & the U.S.

THE PRE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION (1979) RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRAN AND

THE UNITED STATES: AN ANALYSIS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF

This research examines the pre Islamic Revolution relationship between Iran and the United States. The Islamic Revolution in Iran occurred in 1979. The relationship between the two countries is analyzed within the context of dependency theory.

Following the end of Second World War, the industrialized countries began to loosen their political control over those countries that were formerly their coloniespolitically, economically, or in both contexts. Most economistsboth capitalist and antiimperialisthad postulated that once free of the colonial yoke underdeveloped countries would move rapidly toward industrialization and higher standards of living (Palma, 1978, pp. 881-924). Marxist economists did not share this opinion, contending instead that the proletariat in these countries would need to wrest control of the state from the oligarchy before an improvement in the economic well being of the masses could occur.

As it happened, political freedom did not translate into the economic transformation that had been predicted for the former colonies and other dominated countries. While the apologists for capitalism were stumped, however, so too were the defenders of Marxist economics (Palma, 1978, pp. 881-924). Attempted explanations offered within the contexts of the then well accepted diffusion and structuralist models were simply ineffective. The diffusion model holds that progress is a function of the spread of modernism to backward, archaic, and traditional economies, and that the principal factors leading to development are advanced technology and an infusion of foreign capital (Wallerstein, 1979, p. 24). In this model, development is equated with industrialization and increased economic diversification. The diffusion model views development as a gradual process. The structuralist model o...

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