eBook

Neighbors, Not Friends

Hiro, Dilip

2001,2003

Overview

This highly controversial and topical book provides the first full, balanced account of how Iraq cheated the UN inspectors on disarmament and how the US manipulated and infiltrated the UN inspection teams and other staff to gather intelligence on Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Aimed at the general reader, it follows and assesses the role of Saddam Hussein who became president of Iraq in 1979. Dilip Hiro, an experienced journalist who has written extensively on the region, provides a historical and accessible perspective to the relationship between Iraq and Iran and examines the consequences of internationally significant events such as the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran a year after the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. Providing a full account and analysis of events in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, he contrasts the long totalitarianism under Hussein with the evolution of the political-religious system in Iran and the development of its internal politics. This is an essential overview to the conflicts in the Gulf, and should be read by anyone with an interest in the region, its politics and its interactions with the US and UN. Dilip Hiro is a full-time writer and journalist, and a frequent commentator on Middle Eastern, Gulf and Islamic affairs in radio and telelvision. He is the author of The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, Holy Wars:The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism and Iran Under the Ayatollahs among other books. His articles on the Middle East and allied subjects have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, Guardian, Toronto Star and International Herald Tribune . Part 1: Iraq 1. Saddam Center-Stage, Exit Bush 2. Enter Clinton: Saddam's New Nemesis 3. A Shattering Betrayal, Then Lucky Breaks for Saddam 4. The Mother of all Failed Coups 5. Saddam and Re-elected Clinton 6. 'Desert Thunder' That Didn't Thunder 7. Operation 'Desert Fox' Part 2: Iran 8. Iran, A Return to Normalcy 9. Rafsanjani's Reconstruction and Economic Reform 10. Khatami, a Moderate with a Mission 11. Political Reform and Reaction 12. Reform Restrained

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Bilateral relations / Diplomatic relations / International politics / International relations / Iran / Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997 / Iran -- Relations -- Iraq / Iraq / Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1991 / Iraq -- Relations -- Iran / Middle East Studies / Political conditions / Politics & International Relations / Relations
• ISBN: 0415254116, 9780415254120, 9780415254113, 0415254124