PanThe Washington PostThe story of America’s relations with Iran needs a reexamination. Why have these two nations nurtured such obsessive antagonism toward each other? Former journalist John Ghazvinian steps into the charged arena with a doorstop of a book that promises to answer the question. But after some brassy assertions in the preface, Ghazvinian’s uneven and often tendentious account only compounds the confusion ... As the book proceeds, there are curious choices ... One of the more disappointing aspects of America and Iran is that it adds next to nothing to our understanding of Iran’s revolution of 1979 ... the book merely recaps events familiar even to a casual reader ... There is a need to better understand the tangled relations between Iran and the United States from their beginnings. Unfortunately, one has to look elsewhere.
