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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Trita Parsi |
| ISBN: | 9780300120578 0300120575 9780300143119 0300143117 |
| OCLC Number: | 124164797 |
| Description: | xviii, 361 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : an eight hundred-pound gorilla -- pt. 1. The cold war era -- An alliance of necessity : the secret friendship of the Shah -- Rise of Israel, rise of Iran -- Iran's quest for supremacy -- Sealing demise in the moment of triumph -- Megalomania -- The rise of Begin and the Israeli right -- Enter the sign of God -- Ideological shifts, geopolitical continuities -- Saddam attacks -- Scandal -- The dying gasp of the periphery doctrine -- pt. 2. The unipolar era -- The new world order -- Trading enemies -- From cold peace to cold war -- With Likud, the periphery doctrine returns -- Khatami's détente -- Betrayal in Afghanistan -- Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- pt. 3. Looking ahead -- Facing the future, facing reality -- Appendix A : Iran's May 2003 negotiation proposal to the United States -- Appendix B : Original U.S. draft negotiation proposal -- Appendix C : Letter from Ambassador Guldimann to the U.S. State Department. |
| Other Titles: | Secret dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States |
| Responsibility: | Trita Parsi. |
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Abstract:
In the era of super-heated rhetoric and vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel, the threat of nuclear violence looms. But the real roots of the enmity between the two nations mystify Washington policymakers, and no promising pathways to peace have emerged. This book traces the shifting relations among Israel, Iran, and the US.
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"A penetrating, provocative, and very timely study that deciphers how U.S. policy in the Middle East has been manipulated both by Iran and by Israel even as relations between these two oscillated between secret collusion and overt collision."-- The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter--The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinski Read more...
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