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Oman's Location and its strategic importance made her an attracting area for the European states especially Britain which exploited the nature of the Omani society, as it is closed and highly effected by tribal struggles in addition to bad administration of the Sultans, to achieve her colonial interests especially after the discovery of oil. That led to the rise of the armed movement in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdhar 1957-1959 that Sultan Saeed bin Taymoor managed to suppress with the help of Britain. That led to the break-out of the movement of Dhufar on June,9th 1965. It continued till the end of 1975. The reasons for its rise were gathered, that included bad administration of Sultan Saeed bin Taymoor and his harsh actions. This movement was wider in range and more organized than the previous one. It succeeded in causing heavy losses in equipment and men to the Sultan, which led to dethrone him replaced by his son Sultan Qabus on July, 23rd 1970. Up to 1968 military operations of the movement were limited with an exception of the attempt to assassinate Sultan Saeed in 1966. After the Arab loss in June 1967 and its bad reaction on the leaders or the Arab Nationalists Movement in Dhufar, they turned to the Marxist-Leninist ideology. That ideology did not get along with the traditions of the Dhufari society which led to the atrophy and vanishing of military activities of the movement, as it lacked the public incubator. On the other hand many powers stood against the movement; Britain, the United States of America, regional states, headed by Iran, that were against any attempt of liberation in the Arab Gulf area and the Arab states else than Iraq, Libya and South Yemen, who supported the movement. Even those countries, who stood with the movement, could not continue their active support for it. The thesis is divided into four chapters; Chapter One dealt with Oman and Dhufar's location and their social, economical and political status; Chapter Two covered establishing the front of Liberation of Dhufar in 1964 as an introduction to the set-off of the armed struggle in Dhufar in 1965 till 1968; Chapter Three discussed the (with and against) attitudes of the Arab states, while Chapter Four discussed the international attitudes towards the armed movement including the attitudes of China, the Soviet Union, the Socialist countries, some international organizations and those who stood against; Britain, the United States of America and Iran, the neighboring country led by the Shah. The thesis also contained an epilogue with the conclusions in addition to attachments and lists of Arabic and foreign references.
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