Cold War Length if Nixon 2nd Term Uninterrupted?

Nixon's famous phrase "You don't grease the skids for friends". He would have backed Muhammad Reza to the hilt.
I think it would have taken a military invasion to prevent Iran's Islamic revolution. After Vietnam, Americans would not have supported it.
 
I think it would have taken a military invasion to prevent Iran's Islamic revolution.

It wasn't an Islamic Revolution, or didn't start that way. The was a large secular element, as well as Communist even.

They were sidelined quickly after Khomeini returned from Paris, the erstwhile allies quickly found new homes is the Shah's old prisons. Without his return, things shake out much differently
 
Compared to our timeline's SALT II, far larger cuts that will save a lot of money for both sides...
If Nixon is secure in his second term then one of the largest economic effects will likely be from getting his healthcare reform legislation passed.


Alternate 1980 is quite different from ours, with a USSR not spending so much on nuclear weapons their civilian side of the economy is not the our timeline wreck, and shambles on into the next century.
A slightly worse American economy in return for seeing the Soviet Union collapse doesn't seem like that bad of a deal to be honest.
 
Nixon's famous phrase "You don't grease the skids for friends". He would have backed Muhammad Reza to the hilt.


I think it would have taken a military invasion to prevent Iran's Islamic revolution. After Vietnam, Americans would not have supported it.

I think there more likely to endorse Ajax part 2. 53 25 years later. A regency at last resort.

It wasn't an Islamic Revolution, or didn't start that way. The was a large secular element, as well as Communist even.

They were sidelined quickly after Khomeini returned from Paris, the erstwhile allies quickly found new homes is the Shah's old prisons. Without his return, things shake out much differently

The Iranian Revolution was a long thing coming since the Shah pissed off everyone from the conservatives to religious political sides in part of his reforms and in part of his autocratic rule that grew day by day. However, as said, the the Islamic radicals only took power because the moderate let them, and the Islamics only came to power thanks to Ayatollah Khomenini coming back to Iran/was still alive by 1978-1979. (It was a secular republic for a little while before he came to town.) Get rid of Khomenini and the Islamics lose their focus.

It didn't help Jimmy Carter really bungled Iran badly, and his ME peace work didn't help matters.

There are a lot of options of who can come to power in Iran outside of the Islamics and Khomenini's group. You can even have a reformed Imperial Iran survive, albeit a very constitutional monarchy à la Britain, if you play the cards right.
 
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