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BECOMING ENEMIES:
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS AND THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1979-1988
BY JAMES G. BLIGHT, JANET M. LANG, HUSSEIN BANAI, MALCOLM BYRNE, AND JOHN TIRMAN
WITH A FORWARD BY BRUCE RIEDEL
By applying an innovative methodology ("critical oral history"), by engaging some of the
most authoritative voices on the subject matter in a well-informed, candid, and insightful
dialogue, and through their own trenchant analyses, the authors of this groundbreaking
work provide a fresh perspective on the mindsets, misperceptions, and misguided policies
by Iran, Iraq, and the United States, that helped start and prolong what became one of the
bloodiest regional wars in the latter half of the twentieth century. For policymakers,
scholars, and students pondering the causes of the enduring enmities and mistrust
between Iran and the United States today, this book is a must read.— Ali Banuazizi,
Boston College and past president, Middle East Studies Association
An elegantly written treasure trove of fascinating, forgotten, and previously unrevealed
history. For those seeking to understand the roots of modern enmity between the U.S. and
Iran, Becoming Enemies is a truly unique and wonderful resource.— Karim
Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment
A fascinating, eye-opening book about the players and politics of the Iran-Iraq war and
the war's domestic and foreign policy repercussions whose effects continue to resonate
today.— Haleh Esfandiari, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
...This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand recent U.S. policy in the Middle East.
— Nigel J. Ashton, London School of Economics and Political Science
In this brilliant and disturbing book, America’s foreign policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s is told, for the
first time, from deep inside the U.S. decision making apparatus of the Carter and Reagan administrations. It is a sobering tale of
Washington’s misperceptions, ignorance and arrogance drawing on newly declassified documentation and oral testimony from
key participants, who struggle to come to grips with how and why the U.S. rallied behind one of the twentieth century’s most
brutal despots, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, in his war with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, thereby sowing the seeds of bitter U.S.Iranian enmity that exists to this day.
— Patrick Tyler, former Middle East correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post
...This novel and commendably lucid volume draws on a trove of declassified documents, as well as top scholars and policy
experts to offer fresh accounts of defining episodes of the decade. The often enlightening give-and-take of scholars, diplomats
and officials, several of whom played leading roles during this fateful period, lends authenticity to the authors' assessments.
Given the dangers that continue to haunt U.S.-Iran relations, Becoming Enemies could not be more urgent to read and ponder.
— Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University
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