Manufactured Crisis - The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Manufactured Crisis provides unique and timely background to the ongoing diplomacy around Iran's nuclear technology program. In it, award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter offers a well documented critique of the official 'western' account of what the Iranian government has been doing, and why.
In Manufactured Crisis, Porter brings together the results of his many years of research into the issue--including numerous interviews with former insiders. He shows that the origins of the Iran nuclear "crisis" lay not in an Iranian urge to obtain nuclear weapons but, rather, in a sustained effort by the United States and its allies to deny Iran its right, as guaranteed in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to have any nuclear program at all.
The book highlights the impact that the United States' alliance with Israel had on Washington's pursuit of its Iran policy and sheds new light on the US strategy of turning the International Atomic Energy Agency into a tool of its anti-Iran policy.

About the author

Gareth Porter is an investigative journalist, historian, author, and analyst of U.S. foreign and military policy. Porter has written four books, including his seminal work on Vietnam, Perils of Dominance, and his writing has been published in such outlets as Al-Jazeera English, The Nation, Inter Press Service, the Huffington Post, and Truthout. He was the 2012 winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism.

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Porter
• Publisher: Just World Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9781935982333
• ISBN: 978-1-935982-33-3
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran