Map on endpapers.

Includes index.

Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America's destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book's central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran's grip on America's future is even tighter. As ex-CIA operative Rober Baer masterfully shows, Iran has maneuvered itself into the elite superpower ranks by exploiting Americans' false perceptions of what Iran is by letting us believe it is a country run by scowling religious fanatics, to preoccupied with theocratics jostling and terrorist agendas to strengthen its political and economic foundations.

Not AR rated