Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What about the other Moslem states? Husky Iraq, shaky Jordan, pro-Communist Syria, half-Christian Lebanon, oil-rich Saudi Arabia, pro-western Turkey and Iran, all represent separate influences or vacuums of their own. The U.S. is concerned most about Syria and Jordan because neither has a government strong enough to ensure stability. The U.S. hopes that a strong Iraq will exercise a significant gravitational force in the area, is willing then to let nature take its course with Syria and Jordan...
While troublemakers stirred in Baghdad streets, Premier Nuri es-Said met for three days with the leaders of the three other Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact-Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. (The fifth pact member-Britain-was not welcome.) The four pledged strong measures to fight "the rising tide of subversion in the Middle East," and were obviously most alarmed at the threat in Syria...
...their talks emerged the possibility that the moribund Baghdad Pact might be transmuted into something else -a purely Moslem pact against Soviet penetration. For some time Saudi Arabia's King Saud, despite his feud with the ruling Hashemite family in Iraq, has been moving gradually toward a rapprochement with Iraq, based on the common interest of the two largest oil-producing lands of the Arab world. (Saud fears that Syrians may blow up the U.S.-owned Tapline from his oil fields as they blew up the Iraqi pipeline.) From their new awareness could emerge an inner order...
Iran (pop. 21,146,000). Like Turkey, a Moslem-but not an Arab-state. Three years ago the country was falling into anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably...
Lebanon (pop. 1,425,000). Smallest Arab country, officially half Christian and half Moslem, the cultural and commercial center of the Arab Levant. Pro-U.S., and less hostile to Israel than any other neighboring state, Lebanon alone among the Arabs has so far refused to break diplomatic relations with Britain or France...