The Iran Threat by Alireza Jafarzadeh

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http://www.amazon.com/Iran-Threat-Presiden...9798&sr=1-1

This book is a comprehensive, yet brief and accessible, fact-driven and up-to-date (this book is published in 2007) summary on the recent history of Iran and why it is a global disaster to permit them to have any sort of nuclear weapons capability. This book is not written by a right-wing uninformed blowhard. Instead, this book is written by the very terrorism expert who blew the whistle on Iran's underground uranium enrichment program back in 2002. The author is a Middle East analyst with extensive knowledge on Islamic Fundamentalism and a Fox News Foreign Affairs Analyst. He is also the president of Strategic Policy Consulting Inc. in Washington D.C. and is also the former media director for the Washington D.C. office of the parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI). This guy really knows what he is talking about and is probably one of the foremost pro-western experts on what is happening in Iran.

This book details the frightening developments in Iran over the recent years and especially focuses on the takeover by the Iranian military of the nuclear program that is claimed for "peaceful purposes", the transfer of nuclear facilities to underground tunnel complexes and the acceleration of the nuclear weapons program since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ascended to the presidency.

The author goes into great detail on many pertinent facets of the Iran crisis including:

* The Iranian Revolution of 1979 and how Ayatollah Khomeini converted Iran into a brutally fanatical theocracy.

* Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's shadowy rise to power, his regular meetings with Ayatollah Khomeini as a student and his significant connection with the student organization that helped orchestate the 1979 hostage crisis.

* The oppressive reforms of the Ahmadinejad regime.

* The stated radical and globally ambitious ideology of the Iranian mullahs.

* Iran's role in the Iraqi insurgency.

* The history and present capability of Iran's Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Nuclear Weapons Capability.

* The extensive measures Iran has made to defend their underground enrichment facilities (spreading them out, placing them deep underground, strategically positioning anti-aircraft technology).

The author also offers his opinion on what policy actions should be taken against Iran, which he describes as beyond negotiation.

Anyway, for those of who particularly interested in combatting Islamic Extremism and wish to receive a more thorough understanding of what has been happening in Iran since the Iranian Revolution, this is a must read.