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Article: Facing down Iran.(Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States )(Book Review)
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- The National Interest
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- September 22, 2005
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Ilan I. Berman, Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States (Lenham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 224 pp., $24.95.
THIS CONCISE book represents a well-integrated compilation of Ilan Berman's writings on Iran, supplemented with new arguments and information. Its main thesis is that the United States lacks a coherent policy to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. Although the analysis is deliberately stark, Tehran Rising makes an essential contribution to the ongoing debate about how the United States should respond to the Iranian challenge.
Mr. Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council and the editor of the Journal ...