Iran's Nuclear Option- essential reading for all with an interest in global security and the perilous Middle East

At a time when international terrorism is the focal point of our concerns, a far more pressing threat has arisen to the balance of power in the world and ultimately to the security of our country. Since the Islamic Republic of Iran admitted that it was secretly producing highly enriched uranium, leading nations have struggled to react in an appropriate manner. In this book, the U.S. public is able to learn, in full detail and for the first time, exactly what the Europeans and UN have been trying to forestall.

In Iran we see a country, located at the center of the Middle East, which could very shortly have the ability to strike its immediate neighbors as well as nations farther away with nuclear weapons. With the innate size to dominate its region, Iran is also a country with an avowed mission to export its theocratic principles, and a nation which has, over the past 25 years, been a notorious supporter of terrorist organizations. Its parallel development of atomic bombs comprises the greatest threat that we have seen in the new millennium.

In Iran's Nuclear Option, defense expert Al J. Venter details the extent to which Iran's weapons program has developed, and the clandestine manner in which its nuclear technology has been acquired. He demonstrates how Tehran has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and details the involvement of several countries which have been shown by the IAEA to have trafficked in illegal nuclear materials. He proves, for the first time, a direct link between the now-defunct South African apartheid regime's nuclear program and Tehran's current nuclear ambitions.

Venter digs deep into ancillary subjects, such as Iran's fervor on behalf of Shiite Islam, its missile program—developed alongside its nuclear one—and the role of the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards), whose tentacles have spread throughout the Middle East and increasingly further afield. While noting Tehran's support of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Venter follows closely how the Persian homeland itself has progressed toward a strategic nuclear capability that would make recent terrorist attacks look obsolete.

Al. J. VENTER has been an international war correspondent for nearly forty years, primarily for the Jane’s Information Group. He has also produced books and documentary films on subjects from the wars in Africa and Afghanistan to sharkhunting off the Cape of Good Hope. Among his other works are The Iraqi War Debrief and War Dog: Fighting Other People’ Wars—the Modern Mercenary in Combat.

IRAN'S NUCLEAR OPTION: Tehran’s Quest for the Atom Bomb
By Al J. Venter, Published by Casemate
6 x 9, 460 pages, 8 pages color photos, line drawings and maps; 978-193203333-5; $29.95; hardback.

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