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Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran

Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781250043535
Published:
01 Jan 2014
Publisher:
Macmillan
Dimensions:
496 pages - 235 x 156 x 20mm

Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America’s strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamour of U.S. sabre rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran—just as Nixon revolutionized U.S. foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China.

Former analysts in both the Bush and Clinton administrations, the Leveretts offer a uniquely informed account of Iran as it actually is today, not as many have caricatured it or wished it to be. They show that Iran's political order is not on the verge of collapse, that most Iranians still support the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's regional influence makes it critical to progress in the Middle East. Drawing on years of research and access to high-level officials, the Leveretts’ indispensable work makes it clear that America must “go to Tehran” if it is to avert strategic catastrophe.

Going to Tehran (Hardcover)9780805094190

An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America’s most informed and influential Middle East experts.

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