| Preface |
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| Foreword by Stephen Tanner |
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| Introduction |
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| PART I: THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN |
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1 Iran: Its People and Government |
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2 The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 |
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3 Iran's Shi'ites: Provocative and Driven |
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67 | (18) |
| PART II: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PURSUITS |
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4 How Close is Iran to Building an A-Bomb? |
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85 | (24) |
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109 | (22) |
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6 Iran's Multi-Stemmed Centrifuge Program: An Overview |
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131 | (20) |
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by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein |
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7 Nuclear Link-up: South Africa and Iran |
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151 | (24) |
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8 Case Study: South Africa's Atom Bomb |
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175 | (20) |
| PART III: IRAN'S TROUBLED ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS |
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9 Building Guided Missiles to Hit Israel |
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195 | (18) |
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10 Iran's History of Terror |
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213 | (24) |
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11 Iran's Unconventional Weapons |
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237 | (16) |
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12 Pasdaran: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
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271 | (28) |
| Appendix A The Russia-Iran Nuclear Connection |
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299 | (16) |
| Appendix B IAEA Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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315 | (10) |
| Appendix C Iran's Economy and Oil and Gas Resources |
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325 | (16) |
| Appendix D How Saddam Hussein Almost Built His Bomb |
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341 | (18) |
| Appendix E Close-Quarter Observations: The South African Nuclear Weapons Program |
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359 | (14) |
| Appendix F Iran's Missiles: Devils in the Detail by Charles P. Vick |
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373 | (10) |
| Appendix G Pasdaran's Protegé: Hizbollah |
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383 | (20) |
| Acronyms, Technical, Arabic, and Persian Words and Phrases |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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| Index |
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