Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East and the Next Great Crisis in the MPaperback, 1 July 2007

Historian Ali Ansari sets the current crisis in US-Iranian relations in the context of a long history of mutual antagonism that goes back to 1953 and in which both Iranian and American politicians have forged conflicting narratives about an evil empire lying half a world away.