British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.

economic
and military aid to willing recipients in the area who
would enter into agreement with the United States authorising and
inviting the use of American arms to protect the integrity and
independence of the signatory if threatened with overt armed
aggression from international communism.

Successfully influencing the United States became the key to the
solution of protecting British interests in the Persian Gulf. In the
words of the British Foreign Secretary:

In
seeking support for the maintenance of our position the attitude
of the United States is of major importance.
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Due to

The spread of nationalism
among Arabs who realised, especially after
the lessons of the Suez war, that they were no longer helpless
against major outside powers and that the decline of Britain would
be followed not by a fresh foreign domination but by none.22

The
Eisenhower Doctrine failed. It was seen in the Middle East as a
US influence and imperialism in the area, underlined by the American
intervention in the Lebanon in 1958. The Arab governments viewed the
US action as an unjustified interference.

However
in 1959 Iraq, due to the coup against King Feisal, and its
revolution, withdrew from the Baghdad Pact. The Pact’s organisation
moved its headquarters to Turkey. The Baghdad Pact, becoming
exclusively non-Arab, became known as the Central Treaty
Organisation (CENTO), with the United