Confronting Tehran

Kenneth Pollack has a knack for timing. Two years ago, the former CIA analyst and Clinton administration official published The Threatening Storm, making the case for war in Iraq. The book was well received on both right and left; according to The New York Times Magazine’s Deborah Solomon, it “persuade[d] many reluctant Democratic policy makers to support” the war.

Now Pollack gives us The Persian Puzzle, a detailed history of U.S.-Iranian relations. Iran is today’s big story, owing to U.S. efforts to bring its nuclear-weapons program to the forefront of international attention. Policymakers and outside experts alike are predicting a perilous standoff, and Pollack promises to illuminate the current conflict by looking at its past.

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Rachel Zabarkes Friedman

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Kenneth Pollack has a knack for timing. Two years ago, the former CIA analyst and Clinton administration official published The Threatening Storm, making the case for war in Iraq. The book was well received on both right and left; according to The New York Times Magazine’s Deborah Solomon, it “persuade[d] many reluctant Democratic policy makers to support” the war.

Now Pollack gives us The Persian Puzzle, a detailed history of U.S.-Iranian relations. Iran is today’s big story, owing to U.S. efforts to bring its nuclear-weapons program to the forefront of international attention. Policymakers and outside experts alike are predicting a perilous standoff, and Pollack promises to illuminate the current conflict by looking at its past.