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The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran Kindle Edition
by Dan Kovalik (Author)

* “Spectacular!” * –Oliver Stone

The world has a lot of questions about the current state of affairs between the United States and Iran…
  • How has the US undermined democracy in Iran?
  • Is Iran really trying to develop nuclear weapons?
  • How has US waged a terror campaign against Iran for years?
  • How is it that the US and Israel, rather than Iran, are destabilizing the Middle East?
  • How has Iran helped the US in the war on terror?

    In The Plot to Attack Iran, critically acclaimed author Dan Kovalik exposes what Americans have known about the Islamic Republic is largely based on propaganda. The 1953 coup that deposed the democratically-elected prime minister for a US-selected shah? Sold to average American citizens as a necessity to protect democracy and guard against communism. In truth, it was America’s lust for Iranian oil and power that installed the tyrannical shah. The Iranian hostage crisis that miraculously ended with Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as president? Evidence shows that Reagan negotiated with the hostage-takers to hold the hostages until his inauguration.

    Iran, once known as Persia, is one of the oldest nations on earth. It has a rich history and a unique culture, and is bordered by seven countries, the Caspian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. It is literally the intersection of many countries and many worlds. It has a population of eighty million people and occupies a space nearly the size of Alaska, the largest US state; it is the seventeenth largest country in the world. Over the past century, Iran’s greatest resource, and at the same time its greatest curse, has been its oil. For it is oil that has caused the United States and other world powers to systematically attempt to destroy Iran. After a greedy Iranian monarch sold all of Iran’s oil and natural gas reserves to a British financier in 1901, the West started just one of its many invasions and exploitations of the country.

    Using recently declassified documents and memos, as well as first-hand experience of the country, critically-acclaimed author Dan Kovalik will change the way you think about Iran, and especially what you think of US interference there. Learn how the United States vilifies its enemies, and accuses them of unspeakable horror to mask its own terrible crimes. Not only does the illuminating and important The Plot to Attack Iran delve into the current incendiary situation, but it also predicts what could happen next, and what needs to be done before it is too late.

  • Review

    “This review of critical incidents of recent history is a treasure trove of information that Americans should know, but scarcely do, and a very valuable corrective to prevailing mythology about our innocence threatened by the evil enemy. Deeply informed, it could hardly be more timely or urgent.”
    —Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT and laureate professor at the University of Arizona

    ***** Praise for The Plot to Scapegoat Russia by Dan Kovalik *****

    "A powerful contradiction to the present US narrative of the world . . . As shown here, fake news is thriving in Washington, DC."
    —Oliver Stone, Academy Award winning director and screenwriter

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia is a beautifully written, uncommonly coherent, and very compelling treatise on the issues facing America today... a troubling indictment of where we've been and where we're headed. Moreover, this book is profoundly important, and a timely retrospective review of American foreign policy misadventures since the advent of the Cold War.”
    —Phillip F. Nelson, author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus”

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia underscores how the CIA’s infiltration and shaping of the media, which began in the 1950s, successfully continues today. A very worthwhile account for anyone who wants to understand how ‘reality’ is manufactured, while ‘real truth’ is murdered and buried.”
    —Peter Janney, author of Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace

    This highly recommended book offers material so encompassing as to belie its small size. Kovalik’s writing is clear, evocative, and readable. Along the way, he recalls those causes and the outrage that fired up activists who were his contemporaries.”
    Counterpunch

    “Kovalik presents a persuasive case that the demonization of Russia and Putin is being used to justify war and more conflict with ever increasing military budget. Attorney Dan Kovalik has written an extremely important book that challenges the current media/political focus on “Russia-gate” and warns that dark forces of war are taking us in an ever more dangerous direction. ”
    —Rick Sterling, Telesur

    “At a time when the U.S. military budget is again soaring to enrich the oligarchs, this timely and thought-provoking book turns Orwellian ‘double-think’ on its head in a cogent analysis of what's really behind all the saber-rattling against Russia. In a scholarly but also deeply personal and fluidly written work, Dan Kovalik pulls no punches in dissecting the history of how America has justified its own imperialistic aims through the Cold War era and right up to the current anti-Putin hysteria.”
    —Dick Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth and What It Means to Our Children

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia confronts the timeliest of subjects, the effort to resuscitate the Cold War by blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign on behalf of Donald Trump, an effort pursued by CIA and the Democratic Party working in tandem. Kovalik establishes... that not a scintilla of evidence has emerged to grant credibility to this self-serving fantasy... [and he] deftly eviscerates the mainstream press. Reading [this book] will be salutary, illuminating and more than instructive.”
    —Joan Mellen, author of Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas

    “Kovalik’s careful dissection of the US record makes Russia’s transgressions pale in comparison... [This] book provides a most timely analysis and documentation to combat the unholy alliance of neo-conservatives and liberals fomenting heightened world tensions.”
    —Roger D. Harris, member of the State Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party in California

    “This review of critical incidents of recent history is a treasure trove of information that Americans should know, but scarcely do, and a very valuable corrective to prevailing mythology about our innocence threatened by the evil enemy. Deeply informed, it could hardly be more timely or urgent.”
    —Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT and laureate professor at the University of Arizona

    ***** Praise for The Plot to Scapegoat Russia by Dan Kovalik *****

    "A powerful contradiction to the present US narrative of the world . . . As shown here, fake news is thriving in Washington, DC."
    —Oliver Stone, Academy Award winning director and screenwriter

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia is a beautifully written, uncommonly coherent, and very compelling treatise on the issues facing America today... a troubling indictment of where we've been and where we're headed. Moreover, this book is profoundly important, and a timely retrospective review of American foreign policy misadventures since the advent of the Cold War.”
    —Phillip F. Nelson, author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus”

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia underscores how the CIA’s infiltration and shaping of the media, which began in the 1950s, successfully continues today. A very worthwhile account for anyone who wants to understand how ‘reality’ is manufactured, while ‘real truth’ is murdered and buried.”
    —Peter Janney, author of Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace

    This highly recommended book offers material so encompassing as to belie its small size. Kovalik’s writing is clear, evocative, and readable. Along the way, he recalls those causes and the outrage that fired up activists who were his contemporaries.”
    Counterpunch

    “Kovalik presents a persuasive case that the demonization of Russia and Putin is being used to justify war and more conflict with ever increasing military budget. Attorney Dan Kovalik has written an extremely important book that challenges the current media/political focus on “Russia-gate” and warns that dark forces of war are taking us in an ever more dangerous direction. ”
    —Rick Sterling, Telesur

    “At a time when the U.S. military budget is again soaring to enrich the oligarchs, this timely and thought-provoking book turns Orwellian ‘double-think’ on its head in a cogent analysis of what's really behind all the saber-rattling against Russia. In a scholarly but also deeply personal and fluidly written work, Dan Kovalik pulls no punches in dissecting the history of how America has justified its own imperialistic aims through the Cold War era and right up to the current anti-Putin hysteria.”
    —Dick Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth and What It Means to Our Children

    The Plot to Scapegoat Russia confronts the timeliest of subjects, the effort to resuscitate the Cold War by blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign on behalf of Donald Trump, an effort pursued by CIA and the Democratic Party working in tandem. Kovalik establishes... that not a scintilla of evidence has emerged to grant credibility to this self-serving fantasy... [and he] deftly eviscerates the mainstream press. Reading [this book] will be salutary, illuminating and more than instructive.”
    —Joan Mellen, author of Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas

    “Kovalik’s careful dissection of the US record makes Russia’s transgressions pale in comparison... [This] book provides a most timely analysis and documentation to combat the unholy alliance of neo-conservatives and liberals fomenting heightened world tensions.”
    —Roger D. Harris, member of the State Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party in California

    From the Author

    Dan Kovalik is the author of critically-acclaimed The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, and has been a labor and human rights lawyer since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. He has represented plaintiffs in ATS cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. He received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford Law School, has written extensively for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch, and has lectured throughout the world.

    David Talbot is the New York Times bestselling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil’s Chessboard. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon and has written for the New YorkerRolling Stone, and Time. He lives in San Francisco.




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    Publisher: Skyhorse (May 9, 2018)
    Publication Date: May 9, 2018
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    Language: English

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    I am a husband and a father, and a labor & human rights attorney. I have been writing since I was in college and have never stopped. I feel compelled to write about matters of public concern, and truthfully, to be a dissident voice. Since travelling to Nicaragua in 1987, and seeing U.S. intervention up close, I have been against U.S. intervention in other countries and against the process of vilifying other countries in order to justify such intervention. That is really how this, my first book, came about. I am sincerely grateful to my publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, for making this happen.

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    John Hemington

    5.0 out of 5 stars Dan Kovalik's latest book is vitally important!Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018
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    Dan Kovalik has written a compelling and important book in The Plot to Attack Iran. The obsession of the American political and military establishment with Iran threatens to further destabilize what little is left of a relatively stable world order and potentially involve us is another World War in which there will be no winners – and, perhaps no survivors.

    Kovalik deftly explores the long history of U.S. interference in the political, economic and military affairs of Iran and explains just why it is that Iranians both fear and distrust the American government all the while remaining friendly toward American citizens, who they do not hold responsible for the crimes of this government.

    For those, such as one reviewer who seem to believe that the U.S. can and does do no wrong in the world, books such as this should be required reading. The U.S. does not maintain troops in 173 countries with over 800 bases around the world in order to preserve ‘democracy’. Quite the contrary. Virtually all of these incredibly expensive efforts (in both wealth and lives) serve to make the world safe for corporate exploitation and this has been particularly true in Iran.

    Whenever the U.S. and its neoliberal allies run across a nation which resists toeing the neoliberal policy line every effort is made to destabilize and overthrow its leaders and replace its government with a compliant puppet. Dan Kovalik explains clearly how this process has worked in Iran. He also discusses how this has and continues to work in South and Central America, now particularly in Nicaragua and Venezuela.

    With all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth now taking place in the establishment media concerning the so-called Russian attempt to “interfere with U.S. Democracy”, it would be wise to check out U.S. efforts to interfere with elections in more than 50, perhaps as many as 100, other nations since World War II. Such U.S. interference in former Soviet Union republics, most recently Ukraine and our efforts to encircle Russia offensive and defensive missile sites and NATO bases – which we firmly promised not to do when the Soviet Union collapsed (something Kovalik documented in his other excellent book The Plot to Scapegoat Russia) has brought us to the brink of nuclear war.

    Instead of worrying about what Russian and Iran or China or Nicaragua or Venezuela or Syria or Iraq or Libya or any of other noncompliant nations are doing, American citizens should be particularly concerned with what their own government has done and is doing in this very dangerous world today – a world WE have set on fire and for which we are directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide since 9/11. We American citizens can not control what other leaders do in their countries, good or bad, but we are responsible for what our government does. And it is long past time that we took this responsibility seriously.

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    Hrvoje M.

    5.0 out of 5 stars An Important and Fresh Perspective on US-Iran RelationsReviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018
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    Human rights attorney Dan Kovalik has written a series of hard-hitting books relating to the power structure of the US Empire and its true motivations toward countries such as Russia, Iran, etc. Although there are numerous books on US intervention in Iran (e.g. Stephen Kinzer), Kovalik adds some insight in a style easy-to-read and with a good variety of sources to back up his analysis.

    He does take a few detours of US interventions in other parts of the world, although which can be seen as part of the Iran context. It would've also been nice if he spent a little more time on US intervention in Iran in more recent years.

    Nonetheless, even for readers well-versed in US regime change in Iran, it is a refreshing reminder of the double standards, hypocrisy, and illegality of many belligerent US actions at home and abroad.

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    Jeremy A. Kuzmarov

    5.0 out of 5 stars Important dissection of neoconservative plot to enact another regime changeReviewed in the United States on October 30, 2018
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    This is another important book by Kovalik to follow up his previous book The Plot to Scapegoat Russia. It contains important information left out of mainstream media accounts and provides an important warning about the sinister forces that want to enact regime change in Iran. The book also provides a good historical context and personal observations from the author's visit to Iran.

    One take away is that the debate about Iran in the United States is completely warped as the 2013 nuclear agreement was designed to prevent Iran from getting the nuclear weapon to defend itself from attack. Obama and his team were deceptive, like Bush, Trump, Netanyahu, because there is no evidence Iran was ever developing nuclear weapon. I recommend Kovalik's book alongside Gareth Porter's important book, Manufactured Crisis. Jeremy Kuzmarov

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    Goose

    5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Insightful and ImportantReviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018
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    Definitely a book I would suggest to anyone who is interested or skeptical of contemporary foreign policy.

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    Ken

    4.0 out of 5 stars Let’s stop destroying countriesReviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
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    Good quick read and well documented

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    3.0 out of 5 stars Good presentation of some of Iran history.Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2018
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    Excellent book, informative and timely. But author writes about the US creating problems for the excuse of intervention in the middle East but seems to buy the "official story of 9/11" Hook line and sinker

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    Jonathan Sigrist

    5.0 out of 5 stars Dan Kovalik at it again with yet another amazing publication.Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
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    I can absolutely recommend.

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    Harinder Jadwani
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding expose of the American lies about IranReviewed in Canada on September 11, 2019
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    Dan Kovalik's best feature in his books (I have 2, getting a third), is he writes in simple language that practically anyone can understand, gets straight to the point as to the real facts of what happened and has been kept hidden by Western propaganda. For eg the 1953 coup d'etat destroying democracy in Iran, and how the US's policy created extreme hardship in Iran so Western oil companies could rake in obscene profits. Or how Reagan secretly negotiated with Iran to get them to delay releasing the 50 US hostages till after the US elections, to make Carter look weak.... that 'interference' in US elections was far more significant than anything Putin is alleged to have done. And he gets to all the key stuff without writing gionormous volumes....


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    Marcelo Uchôa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ótima dicaReviewed in Brazil on June 29, 2018
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    Este livro do prestigiado professor norte-americano Dan Kovalik, autor do excelente The Plot to scapegoat Rusia é um relato contundente de como a política exterior norte-americana vem, ao longo do tempo, tentando destruir a soberania e as bases econômicas do Irã. Recomendo a todos que têm interesse de aprofundar os conhecimentos em geopolítica Internacional.


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