The Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America / Kenneth M. Pollack.
2005
E183.8.I55 P58 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
The Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America / Kenneth M. Pollack.
Edition
Random House trade paperback ed.
ISBN
0812973364 (pbk.)
1400063159
1400063159
Imprint
New York : Random House, 2005, c2004.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 539 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Call Number
E183.8.I55 P58 2005
Summary
Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, analyzes the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the Shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relations--including the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq. He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries' leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-518) and index.
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Table of Contents
From Persepolis to the Pahlavis
Reza the great
The ugly Americans
The last Shah
Come to the revolution
America held hostage
At war with the world
The Imam's legacy
Collision course
To the brink
The ecstasy and the agony
Coming full circle
Toward a new Iran policy.
Reza the great
The ugly Americans
The last Shah
Come to the revolution
America held hostage
At war with the world
The Imam's legacy
Collision course
To the brink
The ecstasy and the agony
Coming full circle
Toward a new Iran policy.