The Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America /

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--i...

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Autor principal: Pollack, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Michael), 1966-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Random House, c2004.
Edición:1st ed.
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245 1 4 |a The Persian puzzle :  |b the conflict between Iran and America /  |c Kenneth M. Pollack. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b Random House,  |c c2004. 
300 |a xxvi, 539 p. :  |b maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-518) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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. 
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