Iran, Israel, and the United States : an American foreign policy background study / Henry Paolucci.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Paolucci, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• International relations.
• United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
• United States.
• Iran.
• Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
• Iran--Foreign relations--Israel.
• Israel--Foreign relations--Iran.
• Israel--Foreign relations--United States.
• Israel.
• United States--Foreign relations--Israel.

Physical Description:

xix, 404 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Whitestone, N.Y. : Griffon House Publications, [1991]

Contents:

• Part I Present Perspectives 1
• Chapter 1. Dealing with "God's People" in International Relations 3
• 1. Modern Israel and Iran in U.S. Foreign Affairs 5
• 2. Linking U.S. and Israeli Interests in Iran 9
• 3. Iran, Israel, and the Kissinger-Nixon Doctrine 11
• 4. The Religious Dimension 15
• 5. Antinomian Prerogatives of Religious Zeal 18
• 6. Guidance from Spinoza 23
• Chapter 2. Current Israeli-American Relations 31
• 1. The Israeli-American Mutual Security Alliance of 1983 31
• 2. Traditional Anglo-American Success in Covert Warfare 36
• 3. Alternatives 40
• Part II Historical Patterns 43
• Chapter 3. Three Traditions of Monotheism in Our Times 45
• 1. Jewish Biblical Expectations 46
• 2. Christian Political Pessimism 51
• 3. Mohammed's "Revolution of the East" 52
• 4. The American Religious Legacy 57
• Chapter 4. Ancient Israel and the Ancient Imperial Superpowers 63
• 1. Iranian Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism 64
• 2. Bickerman on the Iranian-Judaic Legacy 67
• 3. Israel Under the Greeks and Romans: Toward a Portable Homeland 77
• Chapter 5. Iran After Mohammed's Conquest: A Nation of Shiite Martyrs 81
• 1. Pahlavi Imperial Dreams and Shiite Alienation in the 1970s 81
• 2. The "Shame of Islam": The Kerbela Massacre of 680 A.D. 84
• 3. The Shiite Legacy of the Martyred Imam Hussein 86
• 4. Mourning the Martyrs Through the Centuries: Ceremonial Catharsis 88
• 5. Pahlavi: A Name for Modernizing Shahs to Conjure With 95
• Part III Making and Breaking a Shah 101
• Chapter 6. Puppet-Masters of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's Career, 1941-1973 103
• 1. First Major American String-Puller: Kermit Roosevelt and the Countercoup of April 1953 106
• 2. From the "White Revolution" (1963) to the "Imperial Coronation" (1967) 109
• 3. Persepolis (1971): A 2,500-year-old Pre-Islamic Throne? 112
• 4. From Persepolis to the American "Blank Check" of 1972 113
• Chapter 7. Kissinger's "Deal" with the Shah and Its Consequences, 1973-1979 119
• 1. Retrospective Inquiries During the 1980 Presidential Campaign 120
• 2. J.C. Hurewitz's Analysis of the Corruptive Force of the Deal 123
• 3. A Shaky Throne: Illusory Support of the "Nixon Doctrine" 125
• 4. The Vietnamization of Iran 127
• 5. Foreign Stakes in the Shah's Fall and Israel's Special Dilemma 129
• Chapter 8. Kissinger's Man in Iran: William H. Sullivan 133
• 1. Introducing Sullivan 136
• 2. Apprenticeship: Dumping Diem for Harriman and Thieu for Kissinger 139
• 3. Supervising Saigon's Surrender from the Philippines 148
• 4. The Tehran Build-Up: Eighteen Months as the Shah's "Staunchest Supporter" 155
• 5. Imperial Indecision and Sullivan's "Opportunity" 165
• Chapter 9. The Shah's Ouster: Sullivan vs. Carter, Huyser, and Brzezinski 169
• 1. Sullivan's "Conversion" and First Reports of a Mysterious "Huyser Mission" 171
• 2. Blaming President Carter: The Attacks of Kissinger, Haig, and Sullivan 180
• 3. Sullivan and Iran's Armed Forces 186
• 4. The Shah's Flight: Out Like a Mouse? 198
• 5. General Huyser's Report and the Last Days of Bakhtiar's Interregnum 200
• Part IV Religious/Political Dilemmas Since 1979 205
• Chapter 10. Khomeini's New Iran: Anti-Zionist But Not Anti-American 207
• 1. First Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: A Conspiracy Against Khomeini? 210
• 2. Cui Bono? 214
• 3. Sullivan's Last "Happy Months": Khomeini's Commandos as U.S. Embassy Guards 220
• 4. Sullivan the "Centurion": Home, at Last 225
• 5. Obstacles to Normalized Relations: From Sullivan to Cutler to Laingen 229
• 6. Iranian Jews and Israel's "Realpolitik" for Winners 240
• Chapter 11. Who "Lost" Iran? 247
• 1. The Hostage-Crisis Before the Fact: William Bundy's Prescient Analysis 250
• 2. Mastermind of the "Loss": Vance, Brzezinski,...or Kissinger? 253
• 3. Kermit Roosevelt and General Huyser vs. Kissinger's Doctrine of "Defeatist Interventionism" 259
• 4. "Sticking With the Shah": Kissinger's "Realpolitik" for Losers 262
• 5. Admitting the Shah 267
• 6. Reasons of State vs. the Claims of "Humanity" 276
• 7. Last False Hopes: The Brzezinski-Yazdi-Bazargan Meeting in Algiers 280
• Chapter 12. The Second Embassy Seizure: First Phase 283
• 1. The Embassy After Sullivan 286
• 2. First Hours of the November 1979 Attack: State Department Perspectives 293
• 3. Bruce Laingen and the Trials of the Bani-Sadr/Ghotbzadeh Leadership 302
• 4. The Hostage Captors: Religious or Secular Student-Militants? 310
• Chapter 13. Ending the Crisis: Victory for the Foes of Normalized Relations 321
• 1. The "Evil of Factions" in Iranian and American Domestic Affairs 323
• 2. Tipping the Scales in the 1980 Presidential Election 331
• 3. The Fail-Safe Rescue Mission that "Safely Failed": April 1980 336
• 4. Alternatives and Pseudo-Alternatives 340
• 5. Hardline Precedents: From Republican Rome to the American Founding Fathers 346
• 6. Bargaining with Blackmailers: In and Out of the Media's Glare 353
• 7. Wresting Control: Iran's Compliance in a Thankless Task 362
• 8. Khomeini's Last Word on the Crisis 370
• Chapter 14. Seeds of Irangate: Retrospectives of a Professor and a General 373
• 1. Gifts, But No "Blank Check," for the Magi: Up Close with James Bill and Gary Sick 373
• 2. The Kissinger-Sullivan Legacy in Iran: General Huyser Looks Back 378.

Notes:

• "A Medusa's head book"--T.p. verso.
• "From the founding of the 'post-biblical Judaism' under Artaxerxes and Nehemiah in 445 B.C. to the Shiite republic of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Tehran hostage and 'arms-transfer' crises of 1979-1989 A.D."
• Includes index.

ISBN:

0918680441

OCLC:

20823859