<P> Meanwhile, in Jordan nationalistic anti-government rioting broke out and the United States decided to send a battalion of marines to Lebanon in case of possibly having to intervene in Jordan later that year . Moreover, attempting to keep the pro-American King Hussein of Jordan in power, the CIA started to make secret payments of millions of dollars a year to King Hussein . In the same year, the U.S. supported allies in Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and sent fleets to be near Syria as Syria's government had executed nationalistic and pro-Soviet policies the same year . However, 1958 was to become a difficult year in U.S. foreign policy; in 1958 Syria and Egypt were merged into the "United Arab Republic", anti-American and anti-government revolts started occurring in Lebanon, causing the Lebanese president Chamoun to ask America for help, and the very pro-American King Feisal the 2nd of Iraq was overthrown by a group of nationalistic military officers . It was quite "commonly believed that (Nasser)... stirred up the unrest in Lebanon and, perhaps, had helped to plan the Iraqi revolution ." </P> <P> In June 1967 Israel fought with Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six - Day War . As a result of the war, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula . The U.S. supported Israel with weapons and continued to support Israel financially throughout the 1970s . On September 17, 1970, with U.S. and Israeli help, Jordanian troops attacked PLO guerrilla camps, while Jordan's U.S. - supplied air force dropped napalm from above . The U.S. deployed the aircraft carrier Independence and six destroyers off the coast of Lebanon and readied troops in Turkey to support the assault . </P> <P> The American interventions in the years before the Iranian revolution have all proven to be based in part on economic considerations, but more so have been influenced and led by the international Cold War context . </P> <P> Saudi Arabia and the United States are strategic allies, but relations with the U.S. became strained following September 11 attacks . </P>

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