Gareth Porter - Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter is among the last of that rare breedthe independent investigative journalist who brings to bear long experience in foreign policy reporting with a keen and critical eye for K Street propaganda. He is essential.

JUAN COLE
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History,
University of Michigan

At a time of irrational hype and often irresponsible western journalism on the subject of a nuclear Iranpromoting heightened confrontation and even the possibility of warthis book provides disturbing and detailed insight into the manipulationeven inventionof facts marshaled to achieve dubious US and Israeli policy objectives. Gareth Porter, one of our most distinguished and dogged investigative journalists and historians, provides a striking and vital corrective on the geopolitically damaging course of our last decades of manufactured confrontations with an already prickly Iran.

GRAHAM E. FULLER
Former vice-chair of the
National Intelligence Council at CIA,
author of A World Without Islam and
Three Truths and a Lie (a memoir)

Gareth Porter has become a one-man truth squad for the American government and its acolytes in the mainstream press corps... His probing and digging is a reminder that those in power, and those who report on that power, must be held to the highest possible standard.

SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist

Manufactured Crisis is untold history at its finest! Gareth Porter systematically and masterfully debunks three decades of U.S. and allied lies and distortions about an Iranian nuclear weapons program that never really existed.

OLIVER STONE and PETER KUZNICK
Co-authors, The Untold History of the United States

Want to understand why a peaceful U.S. modus vivendi with Iran has been so elusive? Read this exceptionally timely, gripping account of the Iranian nuclear program and the diplomacy surrounding it! Porter meticulously documents both Iranian misjudgments and American and Israeli diplomatic overreach based on willful self-deception and political, bureaucratic, and budget-motivated cherry-picking of intelligence to support unfounded preconceptions. He shows how these have combined to produce a steady escalation of both Iranian enrichment activities and Western sanctions. Manufactured Crisis is essential reading for anyone interested in the resolution by diplomacy of a confrontation that otherwise threatens a reprise of the delusional decision-making that led to the Iraq War of 200311 but with even more catastrophic consequences.

Hon. CHAS W. FREEMAN, JR.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
author, Americas Misadventures in the Middle East

Those who regularly follow Iranian affairs and Irans relations with the United States, always knew that Irans nuclear dossier was closely linked with the broader problems of how to deal with Iran and what strategies to adopt towards the Islamic Republic. Now, Gareth Porter through extensive and meticulous research demonstrates these elaborate linkages. In understanding these linkages Iran watchers would be better able to predict the future trajectory of the Iran nuclear dossier.

SHIREEN T. HUNTER
Visiting Professor, Georgetown University

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Other works by
Gareth Porter

A Peace Denied: the United States, Vietnam and the Paris Agreement
(Indiana University Press, 1976)

Global Environmental Politics with Janet Welsh Brown
(Westview Press, 1990)

Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism
(Cornell University Press, 1993)

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(University of California Press, 2005)

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Porter, Gareth, 1942

Manufactured crisis : the untold story of the Iran nuclear scare / Gareth Porter.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

LCCN 2013954363

ISBN 978-1-935982-45-6

1. Nuclear weaponsIran. 2. Nuclear arms control Iran. 3. National securityMiddle East. 4. Iran Strategic aspects. 5. IranPolitics and government 1997 6. IranMilitary policy. 7. United States Military policy. 8. United StatesForeign relations Iran. 9. IranForeign relationsUnited States. I. Title.

UA853.I7P67 2013 355.02170955

QBI13-600196

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Huda, who understood.

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