Overview
InĀ The CIA Insider's Guide to Iran: from CIA Coup to the Brink of War, former CIA Officer John C. Kiriakou and investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter explain how and why the United States and Iran have been either at war or threatening such a war for most of the forty years since Islamic Republic of Iran was established.Ā The authors delve below the surface explanations for the forty-year history of extreme U.S. hostility toward Iran to blow up one official U.S. narrative after another about Iran and U.S. policy.Ā
Against the background of Iranās encounters with heavy-handed British and Russian imperialist control over its resources, this book shows how the U.S. began its encounter with Iran by clearly siding with British imperialism against Iranian aspirations for control over its oil in its 1953 overthrow of the Mossadegh government, then proceeded to actively support the Saddam Hussein regimeās horrific chemical war against Iran.Ā
The book shows how a parade of politically-motivated false narratives have taken U.S. Iran policy progressively farther from reality for three decades and have now brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran.Ā It explains how Donald Trumpās trashing of theĀ nuclear deal with Iran and seeking to cut off Iranās oil exports creates a very high risk of such a war, demandingĀ major public debate about changing course.
The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis alsoĀ includes appendicesĀ with key official documents on U.S. policy toward Iran, with particular emphasis on the major official statements of the Trump administrationās āMaximum Pressureā strategy.Ā
This book title, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis (From CIA Coup to the Brink of War), ISBN: 9781510756090, by Gareth Porter, John Kiriakou, published by Skyhorse (February 4, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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