The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power

by Ronen Bergman Ph.D.

Overview

For twenty-six years, Iran has waged an international terrorist war while the intelligence services of the West, led by Mossad and the CIA, have waged a relentless, mostly clandestine counter-jihad in return. Though Iran has become a quietly looming threat, little has been revealed about this intelligence-based war.

Now, Ronen Bergman, Israel’s leading reporter and analyst of intelligence affairs, has written a full account of this secret war. He connected the dots of the long history of Iranian backed terrorist attacks, and revealed for the first time many classified operations against the Iranian terrorist network, including details about collaborations between Israel’s Mossad and the CIA and FBI; thrilling Mossad operations, the successful recruitment of top insiders of Iranian intelligence, who have disclosed a wealth of information about Iran’s nuclear program as well as it’s terrorist activities; and the use of ultra-sophisticated surveillance equipment to penetrate and damage Iranian targets. From the Iranian proxy Hizbollah’s planning of terrorists attacks from apartments in New York City, to Iran’s training of an army of work Iraqi insurgents in the techniques of suicide bombing and the making of improvised explosive devises, he showed Iran has steadily waged war against the West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416577003
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	02/05/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	222,648
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ronen Bergman is one of Israel's leading investigative journalists. The senior security and intelligence correspondent and analyst for Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and an anchor on a leading Israeli television news program, he is the author of three bestselling books published in Israel. He was awarded a PhD by Cambridge University for his dissertation about the Israeli Mossad. The Secret War with Iran is his first book in English.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I
GREEN STORM RISING

1. The Twilight of the Iranian Monarchy
2. Death to the Infidels
3. Operation Seashell: How Israel Secretly Armed Iran

PART II
THE HIDDEN WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

4. Dangerous Games: The Lebanon War and the Birth of Hizballah
5. The Poor Man's Smart Bomb: The Reinvention of Suicide Bombing
6. The Drugged Octopus and the Rise of Hizballah
7. The Meat Market: How Iran and Hizballah Perfected the Art of Hostage Taking
8. The Hungarian Octagon: The Hidden Side of Iran-Contra

PART III
THE GLOBAL WAR

9. Assassins
10. Operation Body Heat
11. Terror in Buenos Aires
12. Exporting Terror
13. Target: The Great Satan
14. The al-Qaeda Connection

PART IV
THE SECOND COMING OF HIZBALLAH

15. A Divine Victory: Hizballah Takes Lebanon
16. Hizballah Prepares
17. Oil on the Flames

PART V
THE FIRST SHI'ITE BOMB

18. The Termite File: How an Israeli Arms Dealer Gave Iran a Chemical Arsenal
19. Importing a Russian Bomb?
20. The Countdown
21. Ghost Raid
22. The Second Lebanon War

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Index

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on an astonishing amount of research, Israeli journalist Bergman describes in fascinating detail the three-decade "intelligence struggle" between Iran and the West. It is a grim history dominated by "a series of failures," including the rise of Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran's alliance with Syria and the regime's success in shielding its nuclear program from international scrutiny. Despite some recent Iranian setbacks-e.g., the 2007 Israeli "Ghost Raid" against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor-Bergman concludes that Middle Eastern skies "have not looked so gloomy for a long time." Among the revelations certain to resonate in the U.S. is Bergman's contention that a secret file exists that "proves unequivocally that George H.W. Bush surely knew about all the illegal goings-on" in the Iran-Contra scandal-something Bush has always denied. Bergman stops short of recommending a course of action, but he makes a convincing case that Iran is not only a terrorist state but also the "greatest security challenge the U.S. is facing." Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Bergman's brief against Iran adds a powerful voice to a contentious debate. (Sept.)

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