ABSTRACT
The Revolution of 1979 brought the low-level conflict between the United States and Iran, which was brewing for over 30 years, to the surface. Iran maintained its diplomatic relationship with almost all the countries with which it had relationships before the revolution. Iran not only curtailed its relationship with the United States but was also completely cut-off from the rest of the world either willingly or unwillingly. In fact, since at the time of Iran's revolution no Muslim country had a democratically elected government. Many Arab countries, were concerned that an Iranian-type revolution might end their regimes. This chapter explores how a continued war would drain the nation's resources further and that the population would become war weary they made the decision to terminate the conflict with Iraq, however Iran did not terminate its low-level conflict with the US. Indeed, without Iraq to worry about Iranian leaders could pursue the conflict with the United States unimpeded.
