Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians [Hardcover]

Jerome R. Corsi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2005

With the reconstruction in Iraq under way and the distraction of the U.S. presidential election behind us, focus will once again turn to a gathering threat—The Islamic Republic of Iran. A charter member of the "axis of evil," this rogue terrorist state and the mullahs who govern it are on a collision course with American and European governments that seek to end its development of nuclear weapons. The influence of Iran cannot be discounted, however, because it has perfected the art of oil price manipulation in order to fund its nuclear endeavors, terrorist activities, and strategic contributions to key U.S. politicians who, in turn, work diligently at normalizing diplomatic and trade relations between the two nations.

In ATOMIC IRAN, Jerome Corsi, co-author of the best-selling UNFIT FOR COMMAND, uncovers the true intentions and practices of the Iranian regime and gives light to the aid and comfort being supplied by some key U.S. politicians. Uncovered is a web of pro-Iranian financiers who make significant campaign contributions to political leaders who affect U.S. trade policy towards Iran and are able to work at normalizing diplomatic relations, thereby legitimizing the rogue republic. This poses an immediate security threat to the United States. It allows the regime to take advantage of relaxations in the Patriot Act to begin importing terrorists under the disguise of diplomatic personnel.

Also revealed is the manipulation of world oil prices by Iran. Its restriction of supply has the dual effect of hindering the growth of world economies and increasing revenue for Iran, which is then used to fund international terrorism and its own deadly pursuits. Dr. Corsi warns that a nuclear Iran would devastate the Middle East through its tyrannical policies and threats and would have a significant impact on the world by using its control of 40 percent of the global oil supply to hold nations hostage with oil prices rising to over $100 and even $200 per barrel.

ATOMIC IRAN is a wake-up call to Americans. It is a call to pay attention to the growing crisis with Iran and to hold U.S. politicians accountable for their relationships with and efforts on behalf of the Iranian regime. By understanding the events that led to Iran's arrival at the verge of nuclear statehood, the intentions of the mullahs, their connection with American politicians, and the severe repercussions to be suffered from allowing the regime to proceed with its plans, readers of ATOMIC IRAN will be equipped to take the debate to their local communities and to the officials they have entrusted with their safety and security.

Editorial Reviews

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Corsi came into prominence as the coauthor (with John O'Neill) of Unfit for Command (2004), a best-selling criticism of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Now Corsi launches a salvo at the nuclear-energy program of Iran, sniping for good measure at American Democratic politicians and European diplomats who advocate negotiations. To Corsi, negotiations are Iran's bad-faith distraction from its determination to manufacture an atomic bomb. Indeed, this diplomatic crisis frequently intensifies with forthright declarations by Iranian officials of their right to enrich uranium. Therefore, the geopolitical restraint one believes a nuclear-armed theocracy will exercise influences one's posture toward it, and Corsi accords no moderation to the clerics of the Islamic Republic, quoting their blood-curdling threats against Israel and the U.S. For apocalyptic attention, he devises atomic-attack scenarios on Manhattan and Tel Aviv, speculating further about preemptive attacks on Iran (though Corsi does not outright propose preemption). As is customary with partisan political books, Corsi's discursive pastiche of fact, imagination, and polemics will experience sharp but ephemeral popularity. Gilbert Taylor
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About the Author

JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D., co-author of the NEW YORK TIMES #1 bestseller, UNFIT FOR COMMAND, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an expert on America's antiwar movement and political violence. He is the author of many articles and books and lives in Connecticut.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing; First Edition edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581824580
• ISBN-13: 978-1581824582
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,366,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Jerome Corsi is a Senior Staff Reporter for World Net Daily where he works as an investigative reporter.

In 2004, Dr. Corsi co-authored the #1 New York Times bestseller, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.

The success of Unfit for Command permitted Dr. Corsi to devote full time to writing.

In the past 5 years, he has published 5 New York Times bestselling non-fiction books.

In August 2008, he published The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller for a month and remained on the NYT bestseller list for 10 weeks.

His most recent non-fiction book, America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty debuted on the New York Times bestseller list on Nov. 1, 2009.

For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, Dr. Corsi worked with banks throughout the United States and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers.

He is a frequent guest on talk radio shows nationally and has made repeated television appearances on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN News and Fox Business News.

Dr. Corsi lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a full-time writer.

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars READ THE BOOK - Critique the content - not the author, August 20, 2005

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Eric Laughton (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (Hardcover)

You may disagree with the politics - that is fair. However, when you read reviews that are based on the "person," only, rather then the content of the book- that is, in one word, sophomoric. For example, one reviewer stated: "More lies and distorions from the scum behind the Swift Boat liars. Don't waste your money." This offers what to any serious discussion. Further, I would garner a bet that the person has not read the book. Mr. Corsi posits some very serious theories, that if have an iota of truth, we should consider. If one person does not consider Iran to be an imminent threat to our society and way of life, that person lives in a land that contains the likes of the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. This is a new world; what transpired on 9/11/01 change the world forever. Evaluate the content of the book; look for discrepancies or something to challenge his conclusions. Leave the personal attacks out. It accomplishes little.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What if most of this is true?, February 14, 2006

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SSBN 633 "History buff" (Nebraska USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (Hardcover)

Anyone reading this who reasonably pays attention to daily world events should be able to see for themselves how close we are coming to an outright nuclear exchange. The section that describes in chilling detail what to expect if a moderate sized nuclear bomb detonates in New York is chilling to say the least!!

I know its ridiculous, but every member of congress and each of the nightly news anchors, should be forced to read this chapter. There is a very real danger here that dosen't seem to receive the attention it deserves, and our families and children will likely pay the price if something dosen't change. Maybe then we could get this nation to FOCUS on the catastrophic danger that faces the world provided madmen like these get a nuclear weapon. No one should expect Israel to stand idly by and let itself be obliterated, they will defend themselves and bring the United States along with them.

But rather than devote major attention to the very real threat percolating in Iran, the major media is more worried about why it took 24 hrs to inform them about the Vice President's hunting mishap, or the latest celebrity breakup in Hollywood!!

As a career Naval submarine officer, I worked up close and personal with nuclear missiles of several types. The idea of madmen like the president of Iran being willing to unleash that type of weapon against any country is bone chilling and breathtaking. This book will grab you by the lapel's and force you to consider the implications worldwide if an "Atomic Iran" comes to be.

56 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who's Next?, June 9, 2005

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Michael Horn "mikie" (US Army Combat Support Training Center, Dublin, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (Hardcover)

[I am a retired Army Intelligence Officer - working now as a contractor for the Army as a computer combat simulations and modeling manager.]

I'll try my best to be objective - but, you know it's hard not to show your political stripes when reviewing this book. But why shoot us messengers? The fact that Dr. Corsi wrote a previous book that spiked John Kerry's Presidential bid - in no way nullifies the fact that Iran has - today - 3 to 5 nukes - and only hasn't used them because of the difficulty of mating them to their internally produced IRBMs.

Name callers - finger pointers - discussion groups - can wail all day long - (conspiracy freaks even longer) - but IRAN HAS THE BOMB!!! "Atomic Iran" gives a shorthand version of how their nuclear program successfully progressed - who remains complicit in it's development (Putin & Co, the Russians and an unsavory cast of Europeans, American businessmen and bureaucrats) and speculates on who are Iran's intended targets (easy speculation). The book may very well indeed foster sympathy to Israel, go soft on big oil and the Bush family - but this is trivial because we are still faced with people who intend to murder us all because we do not submit to Allah as interpreted by the Iranian mullahs!

Dr. Corsi plows through a religious, political, economic and emotional minefield - deliberately failing to avoid any of the mines. Apparently we either like explosions - or hate those who do. Graphic detail of hypothetical nuclear detonation incidents in Tel Aviv and NYC - might - just might - get some of us out from our TV sets and recreational diversions to reality.

In 1981, Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-16's dropped 24 bombs on the nuclear reactor containment structure at Osirak, Iraq. 22 of the 24 bombs landed within the concrete reactor building - effectively destroying Saddam Hussein's bid for nuclear domination of the Middle East.

Shortly after, Ronald Reagan stopped delivery of the next 75 F-16's Israel had on order (include Israel using US made cluster bombs on Palestinians in Lebanon for stopping this order) as the world (especially France who financed Iraq's nuclear program and lost a technician in the bombing) screamed in indignation. How fortunate we were that Israel was successful. Osirak was also dubbed "O'Chirac" after the then French foreign minister who headed France's participation in the project.

Fast forward to today. Iran has learned to hide and disperse it's nuclear production facilities. A strike "out of the blue" such as Osirak could not be completely successful without a massive intelligence effort and guaranteed success of an Iranian government overthrow.

Iran and Iraq were engaged in a deadly 10 year war (1980-89) where both sides used North Korean and Russian made SCUD rockets on each other's cities - with documented use of chemical agents by both sides. These folks are nasty critters who have used WMD on fellow believers. Do we infidels stand a chance of being spared?

The UN and "Old Europe" continue to dither on a political solution that can never work without a valid military threat or a viable, effective Intelligence effort working at a popular political upheaval to give Iran consequences for non-compliance.

The entire survival of the industrialized world depends on a successful outcome. To blame this crisis on a single American administration is nonsense. Iran's nuclear program has been in development since the fall of the Shah in the late 1970's. Every Presidential Administration - every Secretary of State since -- is complicit in Iran's current nuclear status!

Corsi's fault is to largely narrow his wrath on Bill Clinton and Madeline Halfbright's non-efforts. But, who can forget Iran-Contra and Ollie North's birthday cake meant for Iranian "moderates". What were they thinking? Certainly there is enough lunacy to go around without resorting to the base art of partisan politics showing favor to any one side.

One can only hope that Homeland Security, TSA, FBI, CIA, stays lucky on this one. I wondered the same thing about cockpit doors while viewing the Manhattan skyline with my family from the WTC in 1998...

For goodness sake everyone -- drop the rhetoric - read the book - publish your own thoughts - speak out intelligently. This IS a problem that must be solved! HOW to solve it is not as easy as it seems. Corsi, with all his faults has produced a book to make us think - but perhaps pegged too many folks political fun meters in the process.