@article{295026,
      author = {Pollack, Kenneth M.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/295026},
      title = {The Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America  /},
      publisher = {Random House,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {295026},
      pages = {xxvi, 539 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2005},
}