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Persia and the Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect, John F. Standish, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0–312–16142–5, x, 214 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, and index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Guive Mirfendereski
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Iranian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3-4 , Summer Fall 2000 , pp. 505 - 508
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2000

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References

1. Gershevitch, Ilya, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran, (Cambridge, 1985), 2: 448CrossRefGoogle Scholar, note 2.

2. Asadallah ᶜImadi, “Māzandarān dar ā˒īnah-i astūrah va tārīkh,” A. Emadi. ed., Bāzkhānī-yi tārīkh-i Māzandarān (Sari, 1373/1994), 28.

3. The characterization of the Persian Gulf, or the Iranian islands in it, as Iran's Achilles’ heel, is not new. See, for example, G. Mirfendereski and N. Meshkati, “America's Undertow, Iran's Achilles’ Heel in the Persian Gulf,” in US-Iran Review (Forum on American-Iranian Relations), vol.1, no.1 (April 1993): 6; G. Mirfendereski, Letter to the Editor, The Economist, Dec. 22, 1979, p. 4 (objecting to the idea that the U.S. seize the Tonbs and Abu Musa islands in order to effect the release of the hostages).

4. Kelly, J. B., Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1795-1880 (Oxford. 1968), 228–29Google Scholar.

5. Wilson, Arnold T., The Persian Gulf (Oxford, 1928), 257Google Scholar.