This book analyzes the development of US 'dual containment' policy towards Iran and Iraq with special reference to the former. It covers the period from the early 1980s through to the present.

Analysing the US policy of dual containment of Iran, this work looks at the role that the Carter and Reagan Administrations played in the Iran-Iraq war, the numerous sanctions imposed on Iran by the Clinton Administration and the confrontational policy toward Iran adopted by the George W Bush Administration after the events of September 11, 2001.

'Fayazmanesh has done an admirable job of examining the origin of the US policy dual containment. Recommended. All readership levels.' - K.M.Zaarour, Shaw University, Choice, June 2009