The Role of America in Inciting the Ba'athist Regime of Iraq to Capture the Three Iranian Islands during the Imposed War

The victory of the Islamic Revolution discouraged America from pursuing its plots and implementing pre-defined scenarios relating Iran, and abolished America’s interests in the region, which were designed in line with Nixon's policy in the Middle East. Following neo-realist theory, this study aims at investigating the role of America in inciting the Ba'athist regime of Iraq to occupy the three Iranian islands and dominate on Hormuz Strait. This is a descriptive research which employs library method for data collection. The main question of the research regards the issue of the role that America played in encouraging the Ba'athist regime of Saddam to occupy the three islands. A brief reply to the hypothesis is that US direct and indirect military and logistical assistance to the Ba'athist regime of Iraq protected Saddam more to deteriorate territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and to invade the three Iranian islands.