The policies and actions of revolutionary Iran continue to reverberate throughout the world. Now with a new epilogue on the Iranian-American arms deal. Revolutionary Iran is the most incisive account to date of the Khomeini regime's foreign policy and its impact on international affairs.
Despite its stridency, Iran has subtly and steadily moved toward a more pragmatic foreign policy. In the new epilogue, R. K. Ramazani probes the most striking manifestation of this tendency-the secret arms-for-hostages dealings that formed Iran's "America initiative." He relates this initiative to Iran's factional domestic politics and its angry conflict with the United States in the Persian Gulf. Revolutionary Iran demands the attention of anyone concerned with American interests in the Middle East.
Foreword, by Stanley Hoffmann
Preface
Part I. The Nature of Challenge and Response
Chapter 1. The Geostrategic Balance
Chapter 2. The Ideological Crusade
Chapter 3. The Sociopolitical Explosion
Part II. The Persian Gulf
Chapter 5. Persistence of the Iraq-Iran War
Chapter 6. Containment by Concilation: Saudi Arabia
Chapter 7. Containment by Disapporbation and Deterrence: Saudi Arabia
Chapter 8. Containment of Revolution: The Genesis of the GCC
Chapter 9. Containment of Subversion and War: The GCC in Action
Part III. The Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 10. The Eradication of Israel?
Chapter 11. The "Excommunication" Of Egypt?
Chapter 12. The Islamization of Lebanon?
Part IV. Oil, Revolution, and War
Chapter 13. Oil and the Iranian Revolution
Chapter 14. Oil and War
Part V. The United States and the Middle East
Chapter 15. The Changing Situation in the Middle East: Guidelines for U.S. Policy
Epilogue. Iran's America Initiative
Appendix A. Table of Arms, Oil, and Population in the Middle East
Appendix B. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: A Biography
Appendix C. Gulf Cooperation Counncil Charter
Appendix D. Revolutionary Iran at the Strait of Hormuz
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
