Iran and Afghanistan

The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran  by Andrew Scott Cooper. Picador (2018)

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran  by Masih Alinejad, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War  by Craig Whitlock, WP Company LLC, 2021.  Foreign Aid Corrupts Locals Many critics blamed our failure in Afghanistan on the corruption of their government officials, but we were the ones who gave them the money. American aid for public works projects was siphoned off not only by corrupt government officials, but also by the Taliban. The United States poured money into building schools, even though there were few jobs for sc

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace  by Roya Hakakian, Grove Press, 2011.  This book is about the assassination of four Kurdish dissidents at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin by agents sent by the leadership of Iran. Khomeini had a hit list of Iranian dissidents who had fled abroad. Prior to the Berlin restaurant massacre, Iranian agents had already attacked dissidents in Paris, Manila, Bombay, Karachi, Istanbul, Vienna, Geneva, Stockholm, and Tokyo. Iranian agents captured and

The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014  by Carlotta Gall, Mariner Books Reprint, Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 2015.  Inter-Service Intelligence The real enemy is Pakistan, whose I.S.I. (Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence) is behind the Taliban proxy force in Afghanistan. Baluchistan The author visited Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan province of Pakistan, which is in the West,  near the border with Iran. The Baluchis don't have a country of