The Devil We Know Dealing With the New - Robert Baer, ebook, ebook.1400, Temp 2
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//-->Robert BaerThe Devil We KnowTable of ContentsTHE DEVIL WE KNOWPROLOGUE1THE IRANIAN PARADOX2HOW IRAN BEAT AMERICA3THE MASTER PLAN: HOW IRAN ARRIVED AT ITSSECRET BLUEPRINT FOR EMPIRE4FROM TERRORISM TO POWER POLITICS: HOWIRAN BECAME A STATIST POWER5LETHAL AND ELUSIVE: WHY IRAN’S WEAPONSAND TACTICS MAKE IT UNCONQUERABLE — EVENWITHOUT NUKES6SEIZING THE WORLD’S ENERGY CORRIDORS:WHY IRAN WILL SHORTLY CONTROL THE MOST VITALOIL AND GAS TRADE ROUTES7TOPPLING THE ARAB SHEIKHDOMS: HOW IRANPLANS TO SEIZE THE PERSIAN GULF’S OIL8WHITE KNIGHTS: HOW IRAN’S SHIA AREWINNING THE HEARTS OF THE SUNNI PALESTINIANS9WINNER TAKE ALL: WHY THE SHIA WILL PREVAIL— AND THE OPENING IT OFFERS10ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: MARTYRS, SUICIDEBOMBERS, AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF ISLAM11MEMORIES THAT DON’T FADE: WHAT IRANREALLY WANTSEPILOGUEGLOSSARYACKNOWLEDGMENTS____________________THE DEVIL WE KNOWPROLOGUE____________________I first visited Iran in October 1978, only months beforeAyatollah Khomeini would return from exile and take power. I wastwenty-four, on my way to my first CIA posting, in India, and hadonly the vaguest ideas about the Middle East.The kamikaze taxi driver who drove me into Tehran from theair-port that night taught me my first lesson: Iranians can’t drive. Theway he swooped and darted between the army patrols, I wasconvinced he was trying to draw fire. And was it legal to drivedown the sidewalk to get around traffic? My one-week stopover inTehran did little to clear things up. I left not having the slightest ideawhat Khomeini would do with the mess when it was his. As I’d findout much later, Khomeini didn’t know either.Less than four years later, Iran was at war with the UnitedStates. On Tehran’s part it was undeclared; on Washington’s, itwas ignored. In the middle of the Cold War, who had time forTehran’s idiosyncratic, possibly insane mullahs?I served on the front lines of that war, declared orundeclared. I lost colleagues at the American embassy in Beirut,which Iran truck-bombed in April 1983. I lost Iranian friendsassassinated by the regime. Like many, I was convinced that Iran’srevolution would drown in its own blood, the revolutionary zealdraining out just as it had with other violent rebellions in Islam. Thisseemed all but certain during the Iran-Iraq War, when Khomeinistubbornly refused to settle with Saddam Hussein, sacrificing
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