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“A penetrating, provocative, and very timely study that deciphers how U.S. policy in the Middle East has been manipulated both by Iran and by Israel even as relations between these two oscillated between secret collusion and overt collision.”— The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter
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Foreign relations, Nonfiction, Politics, Israel, Relations extérieures, Diplomatic relations, Buitenlandse betrekkingen, Außenpolitik, Nahostkonflikt, Iran, foreign relations, Israel, foreign relations, Middle east, foreign relations, united states, United states, foreign relations, middle east, Ds274.2.i75 p37 2007, 327.5694055Places
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Table of Contents
Introduction : an eight hundred-pound gorilla
The cold war era
An alliance of necessity : the secret friendship of the Shah
Rise of Israel, rise of Iran
Iran's quest for supremacy
Sealing demise in the moment of triumph
Megalomania
The rise of Begin and the Israeli right
Enter the sign of God
Ideological shifts, geopolitical continuities
Saddam attacks
Scandal
The dying gasp of the periphery doctrine
The unipolar era
The new world order
Trading enemies
From cold peace to cold war
With Likud, the periphery doctrine returns
Khatami's détente
Betrayal in Afghanistan
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Looking ahead
Facing the future, facing reality
Notes
Appendix A : letter of protest from Haroun Yashayaei to president Ahmadinejad
Appendix B : Iran's May 2003 negotiation proposal to the United States
Appendix C : original U.S. draft negotiation proposal
Appendix D : letter from Ambassador Guldimann to the U.S. State Department.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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