This book, by a team of six war-hawks, including two of the leading TV 'news' interviewed 'experts' who were saying in 2002 that Iraq should be invaded and Saddam should be overthrown, Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon, is basically so contemptuous of Iran and so arrogant for American Empire over the world, that it can only be viewed as a war-document, a discussion of how the U.S. might be able to overthrow the present governmental system in Iran, and how the U.S. Government can do it in a way that fools publics around the world to think that it had to be done.
Four strategies are discussed: Diplomatic, Military, Coup (CIA etc.), and "Accepting the Unacceptable: Containment". The only "Unacceptable" option for them is Containment. The recommended approach is to use the Diplomatic approach to make Iran an unacceptable offer that the global public will think to be acceptable, and then to use a Coup if a way can be found to do that (and they think that maybe we can hire Iranian generals to cooperate in this), and otherwise to use Israel to do the invasion if possible; or else, as a last resort, for the U.S. to invade directly. Israel is a major focus, as being likely to perform the 'bad cop' role in a good-cop bad-cop routine, to get the job done while fooling enough of the public to believe that it should have been done (e.g., that Israel needed to do it in order to protect Israel from an attack). Another presumption is that propaganda needs to be a key part of the solution.
The authors don't say that America is right and Iran is wrong, but everything that they do say starts with that supposition or assumption, as something that's not even worth questioning, much less discussing at all.
I give the document one star because I can't give it none and because the document is what you'd expect individuals such as George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and other well-financed politicians, to consider, but which no decent and intelligent person would take seriously, at all. Its full title ought to be "Which Path To Regime-Change in Iran?" That would be a more honest and informative title for this book.
An excellent article about this book was published online on 2 March 2015: "Obama-Netanyahu 'Fallout' is Theater - Planned in 2009" and it conveys in more depth the nature of this document.
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