Treacherous Alliance : The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

by Trita Parsi; With a New Preface by the Author

• ISBN13: 9780300143119
• ISBN10: 0300143117
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In today's world of conflict and threatened nuclear violence, few books, if any, could be more important than this one. Middle East expert Trita Parsi untangles the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present and spells out how American policies can avert catastrophe and lead the region toward peace. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Trita Parsi is president, National Iranian American Council, and adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He writes frequently about the Middle East and has appeared on BBC World News, PBS News Hour, CNN, and other news programs.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction: An Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorilla	p. 1
The cold war era
An Alliance of Necessity: The Secret Friendship of the Shah	p. 19
Rise of Israel, Rise of Iran	p. 29
Iran's Quest for Supremacy	p. 39
Sealing Demise in the Moment of Triumph	p. 49
Megalomania	p. 61
The Rise of Begin and the Israeli Right	p. 68
Enter the Sign of God	p. 79
Ideological Shifts, Geopolitical Continuities	p. 87
Saddam Attacks!	p. 97
Scandal	p. 110
The Dying Gasp of the Periphery Doctrine	p. 127
The unipolar era
The New World Order	p. 139
Trading Enemies	p. 157
From Cold Peace to Cold War	p. 172
With Likud, the Periphery Doctrine Returns	p. 190
Khatami's Detente	p. 202
Betrayal in Afghanistan	p. 223
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory	p. 238
Looking ahead
Facing the Future, Facing Reality	p. 261
Notes	p. 285
Iran's May 2003 Negotiation Proposal to the United States	p. 341
Original U.S. Draft Negotiation Proposal	p. 343
Letter from Ambassador Guldimann to the U.S. State Department	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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