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The Secret War With Iran

The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power

by Ronen Bergman
Dick Hill
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In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Coverage of Iran has been devoted almost exclusively to its nuclear ambitions. Yet, as Ronen Bergman's groundbreaking reporting in this vital investigative history reveals, for thirty years, Iran has been the world's leading sponsor of global terror and stands as the most formidable sponsor of terror in the world today.


Bergman, one of Israel's top investigative reporters, gained unprecedented access to extraordinary sources from top to bottom in the Mossad and intelligence agencies around the world. Based on over ten years of research and more than 300 exclusive interviews with key intelligence figures, he reveals that Iranian terrorist masterminds have crisscrossed the globe, conducting bombings and assassinations with impunity—even renting apartments and planning bombing attacks in New York City. Iran's proxy, Hizballah, has virtually taken over southern Lebanon and threatens Israel with high-powered weaponry supplied by Iran. Iran and Hizballah worked closely with al-Qaeda and other Sunni terrorist groups in developing their terrorist operations, and Iranian commandos trained Iraqi insurgents in the crafts of suicide bombing and the building of the roadside bombs that have killed so many U.S. troops in Iraq.


In response, and largely beneath the public's radar, a vast clandestine war has been fought with Iran and Hizballah on one side and the CIA, Israel's Mossad, and their European counterparts on the other. The full story of that secret war, told for the first time here, will fundamentally change the debate about U.S. national security priorities.


A new axis of evil is emerging from Iran and spreading around the world, and Bergman shows that the CIA and the Mossad have so far been unable to thwart it. The Secret War with Iran is riveting and urgent.

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    November 11, 2008

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      • ISBN: 9781400129829
      • File size: 496058 KB
      • Duration: 17:13:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 30, 2008
      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.

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