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By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Another day, another outpost of tyranny. With Saddam Hussein gone and Iraq locked in a tragic pattern of violence and disorder, the insta-book authors have set their sights on new targets. Even a cursory appraisal of the new offerings at local bookstores reveals a spate of books with alarmist titles and tantalizing claims regarding the remaining members of what President Bush famously called \"the axis of evil.\" Kenneth R. Timmerman\'s profoundly deficient new book, Countdown to Crisis, falls squarely into this hyperventilating genre, making claims it can neither substantiate nor justify. On the surface, Iran offers plenty of grist for sensationalist ideologues: a hard-line president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pledging to turn back the clock to the days of fervor that followed the country\'s 1979 Islamist revolution; a nuclear program that shows every sign of aiming to provide Iran\'s ruling theocracy with the bomb; and a long history of association with terrorist organizations, above all the notorious and skillful Hezbollah. But Iran is also home to one of the most sophisticated civil societies in the Middle East, a uniquely pro-American population and a divided ruling class wrestling with pressing economic and demographic problems. All this makes a judicious and tempered analysis of Iran all the more important. Alas, such sensible examination, capturing the subtleties of Iran today, is not to be found in Countdown to Crisis.

Published Date: 16/02/2006 Format: PaperBack ISBN: 1-4000-5369-2 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Rating: Retail price: US Dollar $ 14.95 (Rs. 1,069.52) Our price: Rs. 825.00 You Save: Rs. 244.52 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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