The Secret War with Iran: Israel and the West's 30-Year Clandestine Struggle

Written by an Israeli journalist with access to secret Mossad documents and insider knowledge about what has, is, and will be happening inside Iran. The author's painstaking research and attention to detail is very much in evidence. In an age when hack journalists and armchair generals give birth to 2 or 3 books a year off the tops of their heads in pretty much the same way that Zeus gave birth to Athena, it is reassuring... Read Full Review

This is an extremely important book. It describes in a detailed, richly documented, and clearly - argued way the thirty year secret war between Iran and the West, primarily, the United States and Israel. It opens with a description of the twilight of the Iranian monarchy, and tells the story of Khomeini's coming to power. It shows the blindness of American Intelligence services, and their failure to have a full grasp of what... Read Full Review

mandatory read for anyone who wishes to understand the true nature of the most severe security threat the US is facing

This informative history (not secret anymore obviously) documents how Islamic revolutionaries have repeatedly outwitted Israel and the west. If we our are not outwitting them in operations that are still classified, then it is hard to see how this long struggle ends without conflagration (unless we back off of our hard no nuke Iran position). To this day there are no indications in the media that Iran is being contained with... Read Full Review

I've read the Hebrew version of this book, it took me about a day and I'm no fast reader! The book really reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, which is an amazing achievement for a completely factual book with no coherent storyline. Reading this book gave me a feeling that conspiracy books give - you start to doubt your own perception of reality. But the real disturbing thing about it is that this is no conspiracy book! Although... Read Full Review