چکیده:
Egypt is a strategic country for the United States. On the onehand maintaining Egypt friendly to the West due to itsgeopolitical location and influence in Arab League, keeping SuezCanal open for economic and military interests, following marketdevelopment opportunities and securing a settlement with Israelare among the reasons which make Egypt vital for U.S. policymakers on the other the Egyptian foreign policy pattern is basedon geography, national interests, cold War setting and leaders ofEgypt is mainly affected by U.S. policies. This study uses foreignaid political theory to discuss how the United States uses foreignaid to maintain its interests in Egypt despite the politicalinstability caused by the Arab Spring. The archival research onthe USAID and U.S. foreign policy towards Egypt demonstratesthat after Nasser presidency and since the late 1970s, the UnitedStates has provided significant military and economic assistanceto Egypt to pursue its interests in the Middle East. Although ArabSpring and Egyptian uprisings in 2011 and Egyptian military’scoup in 2013 made Obama administration to suspend temporarilysome U.S. assistance to Egypt, but after re-establishment of aids,the steady rate of U.S. military assistance to Egypt hasn’t beenchanged. This issue shows that U.S. unceasing influence in Egyptian circles of power was saved by foreign aid and provesthe permanence of U.S. strategic interests in the region. As aresult, U.S. utilizes these aids as an influential tool to controlEgypt and to pursue its goals in the Middle Eastern countries,including Iran. Due to the close partnership with the United Stateand Israel, Egypt doesn’t have a stable relationship with IslamicRepublic of Iran.