Topic summary
Island of Stability (speech)
Personal
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- Iran crisis of 1946
- Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry
- 1952 uprising
- 1953 coup d'état
- SAVAK
- Great Civilization
- White Revolution
- Iranian Land Reform
- Coronation
- 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire
- Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
- Rastakhiz Party (Leadership)
- 1975 Algiers Agreement
- State visits
Overthrow and exile (1979–1980)
Works and writings
"Island of Stability" is a phrase that became the namesake for a 1977 speech by American president Jimmy Carter, while he was being hosted by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the Niavaran Complex in Tehran, Iran. It was a reflection of Iran's circumstances — regarded as a stable country and a bastion of the Western Bloc in what was otherwise an unstable Middle East under the influence of the Eastern Bloc — and the importance placed on the Shah's rule by the United States. Carter's speech was made one year before the onset of the Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and replaced it with the Islamic Republic.