On 23 February 1966 Gazit wrote a survey of the quiet tie with Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviThe Shah of Iran, 1941–1979; overthrown in the Islamic Revolution.More on Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in “People and events” →’s Iran: oil, trade and security cooperation, without official relations. In it he defined the relations as “a kind of unwritten secret alliance”, giving Israel advantages in the economy, in security and against Nasserism. The historian Uri BialerA historian of Israel’s foreign policy.More on Uri Bialer in “People and events” → cites it in his research.
A fork in the road
An ally that embraces you in secret and denies you in public.
Deepen the tie
The price: Investing in a regime that might fall.
Keep a distance
The price: Giving up a rare partner in a hostile region.
And what happened?
The alliance lasted, until the revolution of 1979.
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Israel and the world
Energy and regional relations
Bialer links Iranian oil and pipeline discussions with Israeli diplomacy.