Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars - Softcover

Hiro, Dilip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415254124 ISBN 13: 9780415254120

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'An informed, objetive,and up-to-date analylsis of political developments in two key countries inthe Persian Gulf.' -- Nader Entessar, LIBRARY JOURNAL

'Dilip Hiro...is a model political analyst. His approach is incorrigibly non-partisan as it is methodical.' -- Justin Wintle, SUNDAY TIMES

'Hiro's chronicle of all this turmoil is exceedingly thorough, scrupulously balanced and dispassionate.' -- Cal McCrystal, FINACIAL TIMES

'Necessary... reading for anyone interested in the contemporary history of two 'rogues' states.' -- KIRKUS REVIEWS

Dilip Hiro is a veteran observer of the Middle East and one of the few specialists who have good access in both states. -- New Statesman, 25th June, 2001

Hiro, Indian by birth, is a model political analyst. His approach is as incorrigibly nonpartisan as it is methodical. -- Sunday Times, July 15, 2001

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415254124
• ISBN 13: 9780415254120
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432