The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to

The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War

Why did the CIA overthrow Iran's democratically elected government? And why has the United States treated Iran as one of its biggest enemies for four decades? Is the Trump administrationâ€™s â€œMaximum Pressureâ€ campaign working, or will it precipitate a war with Iran?
InÂ 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.Â 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.Â

Against the background of Iranâ€™s 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 regimeâ€™s horrific chemical war against Iran.Â

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.Â It explains how Donald Trumpâ€™s trashing of theÂ nuclear deal with Iran and seeking to cut off Iranâ€™s oil exports creates a very high risk of such a war, demandingÂ major public debate about changing course.

The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis alsoÂ includes appendicesÂ with key official documents on U.S. policy toward Iran, with particular emphasis on the major official statements of the Trump administrationâ€™s â€œMaximum Pressureâ€ strategy.Â
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
Manufacturer Skyhorse
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781510756090
ReleaseDate 2020-02-04
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EANs 9781510756090

Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781510756090
ReleaseDate	2020-02-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781510756090

The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War