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International relations Iran Foreign relations United States Iraq Iraq Foreign relations United States Iraq Politics and government 2003- Iraq War, 2003-2011 United States Foreign relations 2001- United States Foreign relations Iran United States Foreign relations Iraq United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Sick, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.054 SICWright, Robert A. (Robert Anthony)
Summary: Puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 WRISummary: The Obama administration is making an effort to reach out to Iran, but is it heading down a path to nowhere? Or is it that diplomacy with Iran has never really been given a chance to work?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Ghazvinian, John H. (John Hossein)
Summary: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.55 GHAKinzer, Stephen.
Summary: What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Kinzer provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KINCrist, David.
Summary: Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 CRIBowden, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.054 BOWSolomon, Jay
Summary: This is the deeply reported, riveting account of a war waged on many levels--military, financial, covert--that most don't realize America has been engaged in for years. For over a decade, against the backdrop of the Middle East, Central Asia and the Far East, the United States and Iran have been engaged in a conflict as significant as it is hidden from view. Using a combination of economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 SOLLeverett, Flynt Lawrence.
Summary: "Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 LEVColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLSummary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRASummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004