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Acknowledgements

1. US Policy towards Iran

2. The Carter Administration's Regional Strategy and Policy towards Iran

3. The development of religious opposition to the Shah

4. The formation of the Tripoli Bloc and the radical challenge to the regional order

5. Revolutionary crisis in Iran

6. Policy currents and the Iranian revolution

7. The intensification of the revolutionary crisis

8. US policy during the collapse of the ancien regime and the victory of the revolution

9. The regional impact of the Iranian revolution

10. The Carter administration's modus vivendi with the revolutionary regime

11. US strategies and the Iranian hostage crisis

12. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the hostage crisis

13. The Failure of the hostage rescue mission and the continuation of the negotiations

14. Iran-Iraq war and developments in the hostage crisis

15. Post-election shift of US strategy in Iran and the region

16. Conclusion

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