The nuclear sphinx of Tehran : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the state of Iran /

The nuclear sphinx of Tehran : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the state of Iran /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Melman, Yossi.
Edition:	1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Imprint:	New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007.
Description:	xii, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud. Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud. Presidents -- Iran -- Biography. Nuclear weapons -- Iran. Nuclear weapons. Politics and government. Presidents. Iran -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Iran. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7133425

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Other authors / contributors:	Javedanfar, Meir.
ISBN:	0786718870 9780786718870
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index.
Summary:	Inspired by hate and surrounded by fundamentalist leaders in a country that may soon possess nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses the most serious threat to world peace, even while he shrewdly manipulates public opinion at home. Until now, Americans have known little about him. Since his election in June 2005, Ahmadinejad has accelerated his country's nuclear research; called for the elimination of Israel; and failed the Iranian people, who elected him on a since-neglected domestic platform. In this first book about him, we see the forces that are bringing the world to the brink of another war in the Middle East. Written by an Iranian-born insider and a world-renowned intelligence expert, it offers the first full portrait of this former mayor of Tehran whose rural roots and vituperative populism catapulted him from obscurity to national leadership.--Publisher description.
Other form:	Online version: Melman, Yossi. Nuclear sphinx of Tehran. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007 Online version: Melman, Yossi. Nuclear sphinx of Tehran. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Funeral
Chapter 1. Faith and Family
Chapter 2. Vote for the Unknown
Chapter 3. A Messianic Vision
Chapter 4. Paying Any Price
Chapter 5. The Grandfather of Iran's Bomb
Chapter 6. Ayatollahs and Atoms
Chapter 7. Evading the Nuclear Police
Chapter 8. A Shadow Program
Chapter 9. Intelligence Failures
Chapter 10. Oil Punishment
Chapter 11. Preventive Strike
Chapter 12. The Riddle of the Sphinx
Chapter 13. Living in the Shadow of the Nuclear Sphinx
Appendices
Bibliography
Notes
Index