TY - BOOK AU - Leverett,Flynt Lawrence AU - Leverett,Hillary Mann TI - Going to Tehran: why the United States must accept the Islamic Republic of Iran SN - 9781250043535 AV - 002 E 183.8 L661g 2014 U1 - 327.73055 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Picador KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Iran KW - 2001- KW - Estados Unidos KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - IrĂ¡n N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran--just as Nixon revolutionized U.S. foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. Former analysts in both the Bush and Clinton administrations, the Leveretts offer a uniquely informed account of Iran as it actually is today, not as many have caricatured it or wished it to be. They show that Iran's political order is not on the verge of collapse, that most Iranians still support the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's regional influence makes it critical to progress in the Middle East. Drawing on years of research and access to high-level officials, Going to Tehran explains how Iran sees the world and why its approach to foreign policy is hardly the irrational behavior of a rogue nation. A bold call for new thinking, the Leveretts' indispensable work makes it clear that America must "go to Tehran" if it is to avert strategic catastrophe"-- ER -