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The surprising story of Irans transformation from Americas ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they at center stage."Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal An extraordinary account. . . . Deeply nuanced and eloquent.Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post Offering a new view of one of Americas most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Irans political establishment by an autocratic ruler who demanded fealty but lacked the personal strength to make hard decisions and, ultimately, lost the support of every sector of Iranian society. Esteemed Middle East scholar Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many key eventsincluding the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the

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Author

Ray Takeyh; Council on Foreign Relations

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300256260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Middle Eastern History