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| 278 pages |
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St. Martin's Press
(New York)
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| Publication Date: September 2007 |
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| Hardcover |
| ISBN: 0-312-37655-3 |
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The first salvo was the attack on the American Embassy in Tehran in the fall of 1979, leading to the seizure of American hostages, a crisis that lasted 444 days. The war continued with the assassination of American diplomats and military personnel in Europe and North Africa. The latest fronts in that war are in Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. Iran arms, funds, trains, and directs a variety of terror groups, numbering tens of thousands of terrorists, regardless of their religious or ethnic makeup.
It is a mistake to believe that Iranian mullah leaders think like those of traditional nation states. They are religious zealots. They openly welcome the end of the world, which would usher in the millennium, under the sway of the long-vanished 12th Imam. They say they intend to precipitate the millennium by using atomic bombs on Israel. That is a chiliastic vision that embraces the murder of millions of us.
The Iranian Time Bomb suggests that it's time for us to hold firm. It includes a final chapter that was written close to publication.
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"Michael A. Ledeen has written a knowing book about Iran's ways. His is a book that lays bare the cruelties of the radical theocracy and its ambitions beyond its borders. After Ledeen's book, the illusions about Iran should finally be put to rest. A smart and unsentimental work."
--Fouad Ajami, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
