Neighbors, Not Friends

Name: Neighbors, Not Friends
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Neighbors, Not FriendsIraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars\nAuthor(s): Dilip Hiro\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415254120, 978-0415254120\nSynopsis\nThis highly controversial and topical book provides the first full, balanced account of how Iraq cheated the UN inspectors on disarmament and how the US manipulated and infiltrated the UN inspection teams and other staff to gather intelligence on Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein.\n\nAimed at the general reader, it follows and assesses the role of Saddam Hussein who became president of Iraq in 1979. Dilip Hiro, an experienced journalist who has written extensively on the region, provides a historical and accessible perspective to the relationship between Iraq and Iran and examines the consequences of internationally significant events such as the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran a year after the end of the [tel] Iran-Iraq War and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Sad.