Volume 21, Number 4 · March 21, 1974
The Monarchs of the Persian Gulf
By Simon Head
Several nations have done well out of the October war: the Egyptians and the Syrians, exulting in their new 'self-respect'; the Soviet Union, posturing once again as the great protector of the Arabs. And, of course, Henry Kissinger, accorded by the forgetful world a reputation cleansed at last of the stains of Indochina. The true victors of the war, however, are none of these but rather the oil monarchies whose territories ring the waters of the Persian Gulf-Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Gulf sheikdoms.
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