Pirouz Mojtahed — Zedeh, “Changing World Order and Geopolitical Regions of Caspian-Central Asia and the Persian Gulf” (London: UROSEVIC FOUNDATION, 192), p. 12.
2.
Amin Saikal, “The United States and Persian Gulf Security”, World Policy Journal, summer 1992. p. 515. Also regarding Iran's view of the Persian Gulf Security, see Nasser Saghafi-Ameri, “Middle East in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War,” The Indian Ocean Review, Vol. 4, No, 2, June 1991, p. 2.
3.
Saikal, p. 523.
4.
Saikal, p. 526.
5.
For more details about the influential factors in the security of the Persian Gulf see Nasser Saghafi-Ameri, “the Security of the Persian Gulf: ”Implications for Peace in the Indian Ocean” in Prospects for Peace: Changes in the Indian Ocean Region, Robert Bruce (ed.), (Perth: Indian Ocean Center for Peace Studies, 1992), p.p. 130–132.
6.
President's message to the seminar of the Iranian ambassadors and charge d' affaires, see Tehran Times, 12, August, 1992.
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8.
AndersonWalter K., “Emerging Security Issues in the Indian Ocean”, in SeligS.HarrisonSubrahmanyamK. (ed): Super Power Rivalry in the Indian Ocean, pp. 27–36.
9.
JamesR Blaker, “The Out of Arca Question and NATO Burden Sharing” in LindaP.BradyJoyceP. Kaufman (ed.): NATO in the 1980s: Challenges and Responses (New YorkPraeger, 1985).
10.
Zbignicw Brzezinski, “Redefine, Reformulate Persian Gulf Policy”, The Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 1990, p. 19.
11.
Paul Wolfowitz, US Under Secretary for Defence Policy and chief adviser to Secretary of Defence, James Defence Weekly, June 1, 1991, p. 936.
12.
PayneRichard J., “The West Europeans Allies, The Third World, and U.S. Foreign Policy” (New YorkPraeger, 1989), p. 141.
13.
Donald Neff, “Now comes the Test of Peace”, Defence and Diplomacy, May/June 1991, p. 10
14.
See HickmanWilliam F., “Confrontation in the (Persian) Gulf: Unintended Consequences”, Naval War College Review, Winter 1991, Pp. 59–60.
