The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis - Softcover

Erlich, Reese

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977825353 ISBN 13: 9780977825356

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This book provides an invaluable insight into the contradictions that drive U.S. policy toward Iran. It is helpful in dissecting the trite, politically motivated threat assessments of Iran's nuclear program and its alleged support of international terrorism.

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About the Author:

Reese Erlich’s publications include Dateline Havana, The Iran Agenda, and Target Iraq, which he co-authored with Norman Solomon (introduction by Howard Zinn and afterword by Sean Penn). He reports regularly for National Public Radio, Latino USA, Radio Deutche Welle, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also writes for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News. In 2001, he produced a one-hour radio documentary, “The Struggle for Iran,” which was hosted by Walter Cronkite.

From Publishers Weekly:

Though Erlich (Target Iraq) offers an alternative explanation for Iranian-U.S. mistrust and the growing possibility of an American strike against Iran, he doesn't back it up convincingly. He writes: The U.S. ruling elite always wants to confuse national security with corporate/military interests. The people of the United States face no immediate threat from Iran.... But Iran does threaten the interests of the... elite who run the United States. Yet he does very little to support this thesis other than repeat it, as if that would make it true. Drawing on familiar observations, he offers a clear, if occasionally patronizing picture of contemporary Iran, but the reasoning behind his flat-out denial that Iran is developing nuclear weapons boils down to: it would be hard to do; people I like tell me it's not so; and the mainstream media are just telling you what the ruling elite wants you to think. Admittedly, it's hard to prove something's nonexistence, but Erlich's effort is unlikely to convince people who don't already agree with him. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0977825353
• ISBN 13: 9780977825356
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226