The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power

Ronen Bergman

Simon and Schuster, Sep 9, 2008 - Political Science - 320 pages

For twenty-six years, Iran has waged an international terrorist war while the intelligence services of the West, led by Mossad and the CIA, have waged a relentless, mostly clandestine counter-jihad in return. Though Iran has become a quietly looming threat, little has been revealed about this intelligence-based war.

Now, Ronen Bergman, Israel’s leading reporter and analyst of intelligence affairs, has written a full account of this secret war. He connected the dots of the long history of Iranian backed terrorist attacks, and revealed for the first time many classified operations against the Iranian terrorist network, including details about collaborations between Israel’s Mossad and the CIA and FBI; thrilling Mossad operations, the successful recruitment of top insiders of Iranian intelligence, who have disclosed a wealth of information about Iran’s nuclear program as well as it’s terrorist activities; and the use of ultra-sophisticated surveillance equipment to penetrate and damage Iranian targets. From the Iranian proxy Hizbollah’s planning of terrorists attacks from apartments in New York City, to Iran’s training of an army of work Iraqi insurgents in the techniques of suicide bombing and the making of improvised explosive devises, he showed Iran has steadily waged war against the West.

Contents

• The Twilight of the Iranian Monarchy: 3
• Death to the Infidels: 23
• The Drugged Octopus and the Rise of Hizballah: 76
• The Hidden Side of IranContra: 110
• CONTENTS: 120
• Assassins: 133
• Operation Body Heat: 149
• Terror in Buenos Aires: 169
• Exporting Terror: 185
• The Great Satan: 195
• The alQaeda Connection: 213
• part iv: 237
• Hizballah Prepares: 254
• Oil on the Flames: 269
• How an Israeli Arms Dealer Gave Iran: 301
• Importing a Russian Bomb?: 316
• The Countdown: 327
• Ghost Raid: 350
• The Second Lebanon War: 364
• Epilogue: 379
• Acknowledgments: 385
• Index: 399

About the author

Ronen Bergman is one of Israel's leading investigative journalists. The senior security and intelligence correspondent and analyst for Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and an anchor on a leading Israeli television news program, he is the author of three bestselling books published in Israel. He was awarded a PhD by Cambridge University for his dissertation about the Israeli Mossad. The Secret War with Iran is his first book in English.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power
• Author: Ronen Bergman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2008
• ISBN: 141656490X, 9781416564904
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage; Political Science / Terrorism; Social Science / General