Books

Abiz, Alireza, Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran:  Politics and Culture since 1979 (2018).

Abrahamian, Ervand, Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (1999).

Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (2008).

Afrasiabi, Kaveh, Iran’s Nuclear Program:  Debating Facts Versus Fiction (2006).

Akbarzadeh, Shahram and Dara Conduit (Editors), Iran in the World:  President Rouhani'’s Foreign Policy (2016).

Alavi, Nasrin, We Are Iran:  The Persian Blogs (2005).

Albloshi, Hamad, The Eternal Revolution:  Hardliners and Conservatives in Iran (2016).

Alinejad, Masih, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018).

Ansari, Ali, Confronting Iran:  The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East (2006).

Amanat, Abbaa, Iran: A Modern History (2017).

Aronson, S., The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East (2010).

Axworthy, Michael, Empire of the Mind:  A History of Iran (2008).

Axworthy, Michael, Revolutionary Iran:  A History of the Islamic Republic (2013).

Baer, Robert, The Devil We Know:  Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower (2008).

Bakhash, Shaul, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (1984).

Bamford, James, Puzzle Palace (1983).

Barnaby, Frank, How to Build a Nuclear Bomb:  And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004).

Bayram Sinkaya, Bayram, The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics Elites and Shifting Relations (2015).

Beeman, William, The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”:  How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other (2005).

Beeman, William, Understanding Iran:  From Ancient Times to the Islamic Republic (2018).

Belliague, Christopher de, The Struggle for Iran (2007).

Bergman, Ronen, The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power (2008).

Bill, James, The Eagle and the Lion:  The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988).

Bowden, Mark, Guests of the Ayatollah:  The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam (2007).

Bradley, Mark, Open Hearts in a Closed Land (2008).

Brookes, Peter, A Devil’s Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction (2007).

Brown, L.C., International Politics and the Middle East (2008).

Buchan, James, Days of God (2012).

Buchta, Wilfried, Who Rules Iran?  The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic (2000).

Campbell, Kurt M., Einhom, Robert J., Reiss, Mitchell, The Nuclear Tipping Point:  Why States Reconsider their Nuclear Choices (2004).

Cirincione, Joseph, Wolfsthal, Jon, Rajkumar, Miriam, Deadly Arsenals:  Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats (2005).

Carpenter, Ted Galen, Iran's Nuclear Program:  America's Policy Options (2006).

Clawson, Patrick, and Michael Rubin, Eternal Iran:  Continuity and Chaos (2005).

Cohen, Jared, Children of Jihad:  A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East (2007).

Cook, Alethia, and Jalil Rawshandil, The United States and Iran:  Policy Challenges and Opportunities (2009).

Cooper, Andrew Scott, The Fall of Heaven:  The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (2016).

Cordesman, A.H., K.R. Al-Rodhan, Iranian Nuclear Weapons?:  The Options If Diplomacy Fails (2006).

Cordesman, Anthony, Seitz, Adam, Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction:  The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? (2009).

Cordesman, Anthony H., Al-Rodhan, Khalid R., Iran’s Weapons of Mass Destruction:  The Real and Potential Threat (2006).

Corera,Gordon, Shopping for Bombs:  Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network (2006).

Corsi, Jerome R., Evans, Michael D., Showdown with Nuclear Iran:  Radical Islam's Messianic Mission (2006).

Crist, David, The Twilight War:  The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (2012).

Delpech, Thérèse, Iran and the Bomb:  The Abdication of International Responsibility (2009).

Dorraj, Manochehr, Kamrava, Mahran, Iran Today:  An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic (2008).

Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening:  A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (2006).

Ebadi, Shirin, Until We Are Free:  My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (2016).

Ebel, Robert E., Geopolitics of the Iranian Nuclear Energy Program:  But Oil and Gas Still Matter (2010).

Ehteshami, Anoushiravan , Mahjoob Zweiri, Iran and the Rise of  its Neoconservatives:  The Politics of Tehran’s Silent Revolution (2007).

Elliot, Jason, Mirrors of the Unseen (2006)

Erlich, Reese, The Iran Agenda:  The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East (2007).

Evron, Y., Israel’s Nuclear Dilemma (1994).

Fawcett, Louise, Iran and the Cold War (2009).

Fayazmanesh, Sasan, The United States and Iran:  Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment (2008).

Foltz, Richard, Iran in World History (2016).

Freedman, Lawrence, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (2003).

Ganji, Akbar, The Road to Democracy in Iran (2008).

Garthwaite, Gene, The Persians (2005).

Gheissari, Ali, Nasr, Vali, Democracy in Iran:  History and the Quest for Liberty (2006).

Gold, Dore, The Iran Threat:  President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (2009).

Gold, Dore, The Rise of Nuclear Iran:  How Tehran Defies the West (2009).

Green, Jerrold, Frederic Wehrey, Charles Wolf, Understanding Iran (2009).

Haftlang, Kiyanush Kiyani,  Azita Rajabi, Azita, The Book of Iran:  A Survey of the Geography of Iran (2003).

Hammed, Shahidian, Women in Iran: Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic (2002).

Harris, Mark Edward, Kiarostami, Abbas, Inside Iran (2008).

Hedayat, Sadegh, The Blind Owl (1987).

Hersch, Seymour, The Samson Option (Israeli Nuclear Program) (1991).

Hitchcock, Mark  Iran: The Coming Crisis:  Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat (2006).

Houghton, David Patrick, US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis (2001).

Howard, Jane, Inside Iran:  Women’s Lives (2002).

Humire, Joseph, Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (2014).

Jafarzadeh, Alireza, The Iran Threat:  President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (2008).

Kahn, Saira, Iran and Nuclear Weapons:  Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (2009).

Kairouz, Anthony, Nuclear Iran:  A Prelude to WWIII (2007).

Kahlili, Reza, A Time to Betray:  The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran (2010).

Kam, Ephraim, Israel and a Nuclear Iran:  Implications for Arms Control (2007).

Kam, Ephriam, A Nuclear Iran:  What Does it Mean and What Can Be Done (2007).

Katzman, Kenneth, Iran:  U. S. Concerns and Policy Responses (2010).

Kaye, D.D., Wehrey, F.M., A Nuclear Iran:  The Reactions of Neighbours (2007).

Keddie, Nikki, Modern Iran:  Roots and Results of Revolution (2003).

Khosravi, Shahram, Young and Defiant in Tehran (2007).

Kinzer, Stephen, All the Shah’s Men (2003)

Kousha, Mahnaz, Voices from Iran:  The Changing Lives of Iranian Women (2002).

Kroenig, Matthew, A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat (2014).

Kuntzel, Matthias, The Germans and Iran: The History and Present of a Fateful Friendship (2014).

Kurzman, Charles, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (2004).

Ledeen, Michael, The Iranian Time Bomb:  The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction (2007).

Ledeen, Michael, Lewis, William, Debacle:  The American Failure in Iran (1981).

Leonard, Barry, Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities:  National Intelligence (2009).

Lewis, Bernard, Faith and Power:  Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010).

Lewis, Bernard, From Babel to Dragomans (2004).

Lewis, Bernard, Islam:  The Religion and the People (2008).

Lewis, Bernard, Islam and the West (1993).

Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History:  Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East (1993).

Lewis, Bernard, The Jews of Islam (2011).

Lewis, Bernard, Race and Slavery in the Middle East (1990).

Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in History (1993).

Lewis, Bernard, The Assassins:  A Radical Sect in Islam (2003).

Lewis, Bernard, The Crisis of Islam:  Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003).

Lewis, Bernard, The Emergence of Modern Turkey (2002).

Lewis, Bernard, The End of Modern History in the Middle East (2011).

Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong:  Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002).

Loveday, Helen, Iran-Persia:  Ancient and Modern (2005).

Luers, William, Pickering, Thomas, Walsh, Jim., A Solution for the US-Iran Nuclear Standoff (2008).

Mackey, Sandra, The Iranians:  Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation (1996).

Maloney, Suzanne, Iran’s Long Reach:  Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World (2008).

Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ:  The Paradox of Modern Iran (2008).

Mirsepassi, Ali, Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change (2010).

Moezzi, Melody, Haldol and Hyacinths:  A Bipolar Life (2014).

Mojtahed-Zadeh, Pirouz Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran: A Study (2007).

Molavi, Afshin, The Soul of Iran:  A Nation’s Journey to Freedom (2005).

Moslem, Mehdi, Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran (2002).

Mottahedeh, Roy, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1985).

Nader, Alireza, et al., The Next Supreme Leader:  Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011).

Nagle, Chet, Iran Covenant (2008).

Naji, Kasra, Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader (2008).

Nayeri, Dina.  The Ungrateful Refugee:  What Immigrants Never Tell You (2019).

Osanloo, Arzoo, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (2009).

Parsa, Misagh, Democracy in Iran (2016).

Peterson, Scott, Let the Swords Encircle Me:  Iran—A Journey Behind the Headlines (2010).

Pirouz, Mojtahed-Zadeh, Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran:  A Study (2007).

Pollack, Kenneth, The Persian Puzzle:  The Conflict Between Iran and America (2005).

Price, Massoume, Iran’s Diverse Peoples:  A Reference Sourcebook (2005).

Randjbar-Daemi, Sizvush, The Quest for Authority in Iran:  A History of the Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani (2017).

Rahnema, Ali, an Islamic Utopian:  A Political Biography of Ali Shariati (1998).

Rajaee, Farhang, Islamism and Modernism:  The Changing Discourse in Iran (2007).

Rezaian, Jason, Prisoner:  My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out (2019).

Riedel, Bruce, Deadly Embrace:  Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad (2011).

Risen, James, State of War:  The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration (2006).

Ritter, Scott, Target Iran:  The Truth about the White House’s Plans for Regime Change (2006).

Roger, Howard, Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America (2007).

Rosenberg, Joel, Inside the Revolution:  How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East & Transform the World (2009).

Rubin, B., Paved with Good Intentions (U.S.-Iran) (1981).

Russell, R.L., Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East:  Strategic Contest (2005).

Sagan, Scott, Waltz, Kenneth, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons:  A Debate Renewed (2003).

Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad, and Daniel Egel, “Youth Exclusion in Iran: The State of Education, Employment, and Family Formation” (2007).

Sanger, David, Confront and Conceal Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (2012).

Schirazi, Asghar, The Constitution of Iran:  Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic, translated by John O’Kane (1998).

Schwartz, Milton M., Iran:  Political Issues, Nuclear Capabilities, and Missile Range (2006).

Secor, Laura, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran (2016).

Shafia, Louisa, The New Persian Kitchen (2013).

Shahidian, Hammed, Women in Iran:  Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic (2002).

Shahidsaless, Shahir, Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace (2014).

Sherman, Wendy, Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence (2018).

Sick, Gary, All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter with Iran (1985).

Sinkaya, Bayram, The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics Elites and Shifting Relations (2015).

Sofer, Dalia, The Septembers of Shiraz (2007).

Taheri, Amir, The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution (2010).

Takeyh, Ray, Guardians of the Revolution:  Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs (2009).

Takeyh, Ray, Hidden Iran:  Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (2007).

Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran (2018).

Teipelke, Renard, Policy Paper on Iran’s Nuclear Program:  Strategy Options (2010).

Thaler, David, et al., Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads:  An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics (2011).

Utgoff, Victor A., The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Interests, and Institute for Defense Analyses (2000).

Venter, AJ, Iran’s Nuclear Option:  Tehran’s Quest for the Atom Bomb (2005).

Ward, Steven, Immortal:  A Military History of Iran and its Armed Forces (2009).

Whiskin, Margaux and David Bagot, Iran and the West:  Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic (2018).

Wright, Robin, Iran Primer:  Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy (2010).

Yaphe, Judith S., Reassessing the Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran (2009).