Turbulent Iran: Recollections, Revelations and a Proposal for Peace

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Table of Contents v
• Foreword vii
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgements xvii
• Part One 1
• Discovering Persia as a Schoolboy 3
• Brits and Persians 8
• Mosaddegh Lifts His Nightgown 13
• The Americans Move into Iran 19
• The Shah's Dreams and Illusions 28
• Ambassador Extraordinaire 34
• Falling in Love with Iran 42
• Bee-Pee and a Topless Beach 48
• A Red-Haired Lady and a Blue Marchioness 55
• Party at Persepolis 60
• Radars and Trailers 65
• Iranian Wheeler-Dealers 72
• American's Iranian U-Turns 78
• An Ambassador Poisoned, a Prime Minister Sacrificed 83
• Black Friday 91
• Could the Monarchy Have Been Saved? 95
• Reaping the Whirlwind 101
• The Flying Dutchman 106
• Escape from Panama 115
• The Corpses of Eagle Claw 125
• Rescue at the London Embassy 129
• Scuds and Chemical Weapons 133
• Ollie North's Iranian Follies 140
• Sanctions Have Failed 147
• Reza Pah Lavi 154
• They Came Not Empty-Handed 158
• Orange County Opens a Dialogue 166
• Histrionics at the Golden Mosque 174
• The Reformer Whose Light Went out 182
• Is Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad Bad or Mad? 188
• Extracts from a Persian Letter 194
• Part Two 197
• Iranian Nuclear Turbulence 199
• Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty 220
• Part Three 223
• Time to Talk 225
• Engaging with Iran 236
• Proposals for Peace 242
• End Notes 251

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