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The Conflict Between Iran and America
Random House
August 2005
On Sale: August 9, 2005
576 pages ISBN: 0812973364 EAN: 9780812973365 Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Political
In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm,
bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined
the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle,
published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes
story of the tumultuous relationship between Iran and the
United States, and weighs options for the future. Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security
Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider
perspective to 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,
American-Iranian 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. Pollack also describes
efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some
way past animosities to create a new dynamic in
Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side
was ready for such a step, the other side fell short. With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the
United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this
relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S.
interests; and what basic political choices are available as
we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.
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