Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Writing. Political Science. Iran and the United States are on a collision course. Washington's saber rattling in response to Iran's hardline Islamic government eerily evokes U.S. rhetoric prior to the invasion of Iraq. Iran's strategic position, its posession of some of the world's largest oil and natural gas reserves, its fundamentalist government, missile arsenal, anti-Israeli policy and nuclear defiance are not mixing well with Washington's grand design for the Middle East. The United States is operating within a preemptive strike doctrine, and war is on the table. The U.S. is targeting Iran. In TARGETING IRAN, critically acclaimed interviewer, David Barsamian draws out the analyses and perspectives of three well-known experts on Iran and U.S. foreign policy: Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari.
Synopsis
Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David Barsamian presents the perspectives of four experts on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime, Iran’s internal dynamics and competing forces, relations with Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consequences of US policy.
Ervand Abrahamian authored Iran Between Two Revolutions.
Noam Chomsky’s most recent book is Failed States.
Nahid Mozaffari edited the The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature.
David Barsamian’s books include Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky and Original Zinn with Howard Zinn.
Synopsis
An invaluable primer on the US-Iran conflict by U.S. and Iranian scholars.
About the Author
David Barsamian is an American radio broadcaster and writer of Armenian descent. He is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the Boulder, Colorado-based syndicated weekly talk program heard on some 125 radio stations in various countries.