Praise for The Iran Threat
Publishers Weekly: Best known for bringing details of
Iran's nuclear program to international attention,
Jafarzadeh offers a harrowing portrait of his native country
with this sobering blend of history and contemporary
politics. Starting with the 1979 revolution that marked the
ascendance of the Ayatollah Khomeini, he argues that
Islamist extremism has played a central role in the last 25
years of Iranian politics, including the Iraq-Iran War and
the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which
Jafarzadeh believes was orchestrated by the Khamenei regime.
All the while, he contends, Iran has maintained a covert
nuclear weapons program, threatening to radically
destabilize the Middle East and strengthen the reach and
scope of the oppressive Iranian regime. Jafarzadeh, a
foreign affairs analyst for Fox News who was the U.S.
spokesman for the National Coalition of Resistance of Iran
(NCRI) until 2003, when it was placed on the State
Department's list of international terrorist organizations,
has a strong emotional investment in his subject. He
dismisses military and diplomatic solutions to the imminent
nuclear crisis he foresees, but suggests that international
support of Iranian resistance movements could succeed in
upsetting the current regime. Highly detailed and
compelling, his account is accessible to a general reader
but will appeal mainly to students of Middle East politics.
Publishers Weekly (Reed Business Information, a Division
of Reed Elsevier Inc.)
"Finally, we have a book from the man
responsible for alerting the West about Iran's secret
nuclear program. The Iran Threat documents how Tehran's
support for terrorism and its commitment to a nuclear
program are consistent with its ideology. Jafarzadeh
provides new information on the political and religious
background of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which
should wake up Western policy-makers."
--Bruce McColm, President, Institute for Democratic
Strategies, former executive director of Freedom House, and
former President of the International Republican Institute
"While the whole of the West--including its powerful
diplomacies and intelligence services--was fast asleep,
shamelessly engaging with the fanatic regime in the
persecution of the Iranian resistance, the resistance
exposed the Iranian regime’s nuclear plans. If you seek the
most authoritative view of the leading threat to our
civilization's values, you must read Alireza Jafarzadeh’s
book."
--Paulo Casaca, Chairman, NATO delegation at the European
Parliament
"As Iran relentlessly drives toward
nuclear-armed status, world leaders shift gears and quicken
their search for diplomatic exit ramps in a race against
time to avoid war. As diplomacy fails, problematic military
strike scenarios against Iranian nuclear sites abound. In
his excellent book, The Iran Threat, Alireza
Jafarzadeh creatively offers another option: empower the
Iranian people to seize control over their own country from
the illegitimate clerical leadership. By removing the main
Iranian opposition groups from terrorist lists of western
countries, these organizations can pressure the regime in
Tehran to choose between remaining in power and pursuing
nuclear weapons. The Iran Threat will be on the 'must
read' list of policymakers from Washington to Moscow, as
well as from Baghdad to Beijing."
--Raymond Tanter, Georgetown University, and President,
Iran Policy Committee
"Alireza Jafarzadeh knows Iran and the terrorist nature of
Islamic fascism. He charts the Iranian regime's political
development and efforts to become a nuclear power. He
analyzes U.S. policy and failures to date to contain the
Iranian threat. Anyone concerned about world peace and
security should read this book."
--Donna M. Hughes, Professor and Carlson Endowed Chair,
University of Rhode Island
"No one outside Iran has a better idea
of what the regime in Tehran is up to than Alireza
Jafarzadeh, whose Iran Threat offers an important
assessment of today's circumstances. He also presents vital
ideas for dealing with a rogue government as it attempts to
acquire nuclear weaponry."
--Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
"As the support for terrorism and nuclear ambitions of
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fan the flames of
conflict in the Middle East, The Iran Threat is the
first and best guide to Ahmadinejad's sordid past, his
dangerous present, and our precarious future. Alireza
Jafarzadeh offers the most viable policy option for the
United States to contain the Iranian threat as an
alternative to war or appeasement."
--Congressman Bob Filner (D-California), Co-Chair, Iran
Human Rights and Democracy Caucus, U.S. House of
Representatives
"This is essential reading for those
who are concerned about the Iranian nuclear program and are
willing to keep an open mind about the Iranian opposition.
Written by the Iranian-American who first revealed to the
world--and to international inspectors--the existence of
Iran's secret uranium-enrichment and plutonium-production
plants, this book provides a credible, compelling account of
how the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards artfully
engaged in deceit, deception and concealment to hijack a
civilian program and turn it into a military one. This book
also places us at the cutting edge of new allegations about
an underground network of nuclear installations beyond the
reach of both the International Atomic Energy Agency and
national intelligence agencies. It poses the disturbing,
bottom-line question of how anything the Iranian regime
might yet promise to do in its ongoing negotiations with the
West could ever be verified."
--Paul Leventhal, Founding President, Nuclear Control
Institute, Washington, D.C.
"Alireza Jafarzadeh's book is a must-read. Jafarzadeh is one
of the foremost authorities on modern Iran, and his book is
a unique collection of information you can't find anywhere
else. From the inner-workings of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
regime to the Iranian nuclear threat, he gives a unique and
insightful perspective to the current situation in Iran."
--Rita Cosby, Host of MSNBC Investigates
“Iran is the world’s number one
threat. Alireza Jafarzadeh brilliantly describes why and
what we can do to help the Iranian people take their country
back. A must-read if you want to understand how to win the
Global War on Terror.”
-- Lt. General Thomas G. McInerney USAF (Ret.), former
Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force
"This book could not
be more timely. As the United States looks for
solutions to the crisis in the Middle East, and Iran
in particular, we need authentic voices to shape the
debate. Mr. Jafarzadeh’s participation in exposing
the Iranian nuclear program confirms his role and
this book’s in informing American policy making."
--United States
Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana
"A remarkably well-written and
well-researched account of attempts by the
Iranian mullahs to join the ranks of the
world's nuclear powers. Mr. Jafarzadeh's
sources inside Iran have proven time and
again to be remarkably well-connected and
well-informed. This book should be read by
all who are concerned with the spread of
nuclear technology beyond the ranks of
supposedly responsible 'great powers'."
--Ambassador James Akins, Former United
States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
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