المخاوف البريطانية من نشاط حزب توده الإيراني في الخليج العربي للمدة 1946-1950 : دراسة في الوثائق البريطانية

الملخص EN

Post-World War II rivalry remarkably intensified between Western hemisphere, mainly capitalist Britain the United States of America, on one hand, and the East hemisphere, primarily Soviet-adopting, communist countries, spearheaded by the Soviet Union.

This period, additionally, saw an increasing communist and socialist expansion in many eastern and middleeastern countries, and in Iran, a communist-styled party rose to the public.

No sooner the Iran-based Tudeh communist party eyed the western side of the Arab Gulf between 1946 and 1950 than Britain took measures to counter the Tudeh expansion in the then-Britain-dominated Gulf.

Having maintained strong interests and influences there, Britain remained a gatekeeper of the oilenriched local and newly-emerging principalities and sheikhdoms.

In the postwar period, Britain amassed efforts against the rising communism in the Middle-eastern countries and nations.

This paper is a case study of the Tudeh activism inside Iran and outside Iran in selected confidential documents released by the UK Foreign Office