Towards Free Trade Zones System in Persian Gulf and the ...

groups against their political system, as well as the most worrying aspects for internaland external security from the social point of view. In the third part, we will analyzefinancial sector importance and the possible mechanisms to cooperate with Iran. Fromhere, we are going to recommend, in a fourth chapter, the creation of a Free TradeZones System (FTZS) as a tool regionalization process that includes Iran, Iraq and CGGin a super economical bloc taking account not only “national security” concept but alsoissues concerned for “human security”. Finally, we offer some reflections in a way ofconclusion.1. Militarizing GulfDuring the eighties, the alliance between the U.S. and the Arab peninsula countriesenjoyed a high stability. It was a time where they forged a common front against theIslamic revolution and where a large quantity of weapons from the United States settledin the main military structures of the Arab Gulf countries. Saudi Arabia and Iraq werethe fittest. Baghdad, supported petro states and began a direct war against the newlycreated Islamic Republic with serious proliferation of ballistic missiles, air logistics anduse of biological weapons sponsored by major U.S. firms via the U.S. AirborneWarning and Control System (AWACS), a project dedicated to the time to spy on Iraqiterritories located within the Soviet sphere of influence 2 .However, it was not until the early nineties when this alliance intensified but thistime against the Iraqi self government. The Kuwait invasion by Iraq buzzed U.S.interests in the region, especially because of potential radius of the Scud missiles2 Wright, Claudia, “Religion and Strategy in The Iraq-Iran War”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4.(Oct., 1985), pp. 839-852.