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Furthermore, he improved relations with the Arab world by opposing the
joint UK-French-Israeli invasion of the Suez canal zone; this remains the
last time the US ever seriously sided against Israel.
The Nixon Doctrine
The Nixon Doctrine of 1969 effectively pledged that the US would
henceforth seek to work via key regional allies and bolster them rather
than intervene directly itself. The immediate application of this was
in Southeast Asia, where Nixon wanted to aid local allies in their fight
against Vietnamese communists.
But it also had a clear application in the Gulf, because, a year ear-
lier, Britain had announced that, in a final retreat from empire, it would
withdraw all its military forces “east of Suez” by 1971 - that is to say,
chiefly from the Trucial states in the Gulf (which became the United Arab
Emirates) as well as from Malaysia and Singapore. The Nixon Doctrine
Richard Nixon's good relationship with Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran,
spanned many decades. The pair are pictured here at a meeting in October
1969.
 
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