Next Crisis Iran? Alexander Did Pretty Well - How Will Bush 2 Do?

Twenty-five years ago, revolutionary Iran seized the American embassy and taught the United States some things about radical Islamic theocracy. The Vice-President said last week that Iran was numero uno in our national security concerns. What do you know about modern Persia, a country with a 3 thousand year history? How do Iranian perspectives differ from those of the American administration? What are our alternatives to pre-emptive military action in Iran?

Dig into a 2004 book The Persian Puzzle: the conflict between Iran and America, by Kenneth Pollack, to see Iran in the context of the Persian Gulf region and to examine the "behind-the-scenes story of the tumultuous relationship between Iran and the United States." The Persian Puzzle may be on the NIC Library shelves at: E183.8.I55P58 - or reserve it by telephone or using the library computer catalog.

If you want to go deeper, your library has 10 other books just on the Iran / U.S. relationship over the past 25 years, not to mention dozens of other books (electronic and paper) and hundreds of journal articles on its history, art, literature, and peoples. We can also help you identify quality Internet sources about this second arm of the "axis of evil" and it's future relationships with the Western world.