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America vs Iran: How Trump, Oil, Israel and 70 Years of Betrayal Led to War
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Publisher Price: $30.99
Publisher: History Brought Alive
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This was not a sudden crisis. It was the detonation of a fuse lit decades earlier.
Most people believe this conflict began in 1979 - with the Iranian hostage crisis, the birth of the Islamic Republic, and the chants of Death to America that echoed around the world.
They are wrong.
The real story begins in a single afternoon in 1953- in a decision made not in Tehran, but in Washington and London - that set seventy years of cause and effect into motion.
This book names them. And connects every link.
Here is what that chain looks like - link by link:
- The 1953 Blueprint: How Operation TPAJAX destroyed Iran's democratic foundations in a single afternoon - and why every crisis since flows directly from that decision
- The Shah's American Shadow: How U.S.-backed SAVAK repression systematically eliminated every secular political alternative - making the Islamic Revolution not an accident, but an inevitability
- The Chemical Weapons Calculation: How Washington shared satellite intelligence used to guide Saddam Hussein's attacks on Iranian soldiers - and why Tehran never forgot
- The Deal That Was Killed: How the 2015 nuclear agreement closed the last diplomatic window - and how its destruction by Donald Trump made military confrontation a matter of when, not if
All of this and much, much more
This book treats it as what it actually is: cause and effect. Seventy years of decisions, each one narrowing the corridor of possible futures, until only one door remained.
The world changed in February 2026. Now understand why it was always going to.
Scroll up and click Add to Cart. The history they didn't teach you is the only history that matters now.
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