Because of The Estimate's recent hiatus during your Editor's travel (See the announcement), Part I of this Dossier appeared in the issue of June 15, 2001. This is the conclusion.
Since Iran's occupation of the three islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tumb in 1971 (See Part I), the dispute has been a persisting one, though one which largely was ignored (outside of the United Arab Emirates) during most of the 1970s. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war which broke out in 1980 changed that, and the islands became a broader issue in the Gulf region and the Arab world.
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