Iran's Grand Strategy

""Books like this that can help find method and reason behind the thinking at the highest levels within the Iranian leadership shed a welcome light on a country where what happens in the coming months and years will have implications that extend far beyond the corridors of power in Tehran.""---Peter Frankopan, Financial Times ""A lot of discussion in the west of what drives Iran’s foreign policy struggles to rise above clichés about Islamist fanatics and mad mullahs. Nasr’s detailed study, more relevant than ever, draws on a lifetime of research and new interviews, providing a detailed and nuanced account of the mixture of domestic and international imperatives that really drive Iranian policy. The west’s understanding of Iran is, he argues, ‘hopelessly inadequate and dangerously outdated’.""---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times ""An admirable primer without hysteria that would make salutary reading for both countries’ leadership.""---Jude Russo, American Conservative ""Iran’s Grand Strategy is seriously good, profoundly insightful and full of fresh thinking.""---Justin Marozzi, The Standard ""Iran’s Grand Strategy pushes past the caricature that so often substitutes for analysis of Iran, and seeks to explain the rationale – however flawed – that underpins Iran’s regional strategy.""---Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, London Review of Books ""If you want to read one book to understand Iran and the role it plays in global politics, this is a worthwhile investment.""---Ian Parmeter, Australian Book Review