Tehran Rising Iran's Challenge to the United States

Iran is the most significant current threat to the United States, the Middle East, and the West. As the evidence demonstrating this threat mounts, one thing remains clear to Ilan Berman Washington is woefully unprepared to deal with this mounting peril. Berman's approach is hard-hitting, provocative, alarmist, and unflinchingly critical. But he takes the indictment of Iran one step further providing what has been missing so far in the foreign policy discourse regarding Iranboth within the U.S. government and outside itpolicy prescriptions designed to contain Iran's strategic ambitions.

Ilan Berman is the vice president and director of the Iran Freedom Initiatitive at the American Foreign Policy Council