Going to Tehran

Going to Tehran : Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran
Editor Henry Holt and Company Inc
Authors Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Language English
Publisher Picador
Pages 496
ISBN 978-1250043535

Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic (Persian: عزیمت به تهران‎‎) is a book by Flynt Leverett, former senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and his husband, Hillary Mann Leverett which was first published in 2013. The basic idea of Going to Tehran is that America must develop his relation with Iran in a similar manner as what the United state did with the People's Republic of China in the early 1970s at the time of Nixon and Kissinger.

Authors

Flynt Leverett

Main article: Flynt Leverett

Flynt Leverett (born March 6, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. From March 2002 to March 2003, he served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council (NSC).

Prior to serving on the NSC, he was a counterterrorism expert on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. State Department, and before that he served as a CIA senior analyst for eight years. Since leaving government service, Leverett served as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy before becoming the director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.

Hillary Mann Leverett

Hillary Mann Leverett, senior adjunct professorial lecturer, School of International Service, American University. She is Flynt Leverett's husband and both of them were former American national security officials.[1]

Context

Going to Tehran was authored based on analyzing Grand strategy of Iran and the role of negotiating with the United States. According to expert opinion in Washington's think tank world, Iran's nuclear program had to achieved to the same situation like Japan, Canada and other threshold nuclear states which there is the capability to reach nuclear powers but they do not get allowance.[2]

The book consist of 11 chapters:[3]

  1. Revolutionary government in the perilous World
  2. Rationality, realism and strategy of Iran
  3. Conflicts with America
  4. Religion, Revolution and the roots of legitimacy
  5. One leader and three presidents
  6. Disputed election
  7. Islamic republic
  8. The aims of American
  9. The mythology and things that makes it
  10. Iran and the return of imperial America
  11. The road to Tehran

Reviews

According to the New York Times, the authors of Going to Tehran gave up the idea of realist attitude of American about obviously partisan stance. At this book, the domestic and foreign policy of Iran had been considered as acceptable view. Due to the concluding pages, the issues between Iran and American cannot be resolved by isolating, strangling , bombarding, dislodging or wait for Iran to fall. The real American government must consider the Islamic Republic Iran as a strategic partner and both of them have to reach an agreement on Controversial issues. For represent the history of relation between America and Iran, this book has a unilateral view and is a collection of confidential document from the time of Iran-Iraq war. At the end of the book, author stated by example how political planes make the negative view of Iran.[4]

The basic idea of Going to Tehran is that the America must developed his relation with Iran as the work that United state do with the People’s Republic of China in the early 1970s at the time of Nixon and Kissinger.[5]

Due to the idea Hillary Mann Leveret and author, the United State required to come to agreement with the Islamic Republic, not in order to safeguarding the interests of Iran, but to stabilize the it's strategic position in Middle Eastern and avoid conflict.[6]

See also

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

References

  1. ↑ Goldberg, Jeffrey (12 January 2010). "Bad News for Hillary Mann Leverett". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Porter, Gareth. "In “Going to Tehran,” Former Insiders Criticize Iran Policy as U.S. Hegemony". laprogressive. Retrieved 2013.
  3. ↑ Amiri, saeedeh. "Going to Tehran: overview to the book, America must deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran 'why does". BBC. Retrieved 2014.
  4. ↑ SECOR, LAURA (1 March 2013). "The Iran Syndrome". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Harris, Kevan. "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran" (PDF). MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL.
  6. ↑ Lasswell, Harold D. Politics (Who gets what, when, how).

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