Nader Entessar is professor emeritus of political science at the University of South Alabama.Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is political scientist and expert on Iran 's foreign affairs.

This book focuses on the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran nuclear deal.” Arguing in favor of a return to JCPOA, Entessar (emer., Univ. of South Alabama) and Afrasiabi, a political scientist, criticize the administration’s maximum pressure policy toward Iran as unwarranted and unlikely to succeed. They present Iran as a victim of "Iranophobic 'threat inflation'" (p. 190), wrongfully subjected to a “ravaging economic assault by the Trump administration” (p. 77). . . Summing Up: Recommended. . . Graduate students and faculty.

• Chapter One: Trump and Obama’s Mixed Iran LegacyChapter Two: Trump and Iran Nuclear ProgramChapter Three: Maximum Pressure Strategy and Iran’s ResponseChapter Four: Extended Compellence and European DiplomacyChapter Five: The Regional DimensionChapter Six: War Scenarios and Iran’s Defense StrategyChapter Seven: Paths to New US-Iran Diplomacy

Nader Entessar is professor emeritus of political science at the University of South Alabama.Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is political scientist and expert on Iran 's foreign affairs.

This book focuses on the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran nuclear deal.” Arguing in favor of a return to JCPOA, Entessar (emer., Univ. of South Alabama) and Afrasiabi, a political scientist, criticize the administration’s maximum pressure policy toward Iran as unwarranted and unlikely to succeed. They present Iran as a victim of "Iranophobic 'threat inflation'" (p. 190), wrongfully subjected to a “ravaging economic assault by the Trump administration” (p. 77). . . Summing Up: Recommended. . . Graduate students and faculty.

• Chapter One: Trump and Obama’s Mixed Iran LegacyChapter Two: Trump and Iran Nuclear ProgramChapter Three: Maximum Pressure Strategy and Iran’s ResponseChapter Four: Extended Compellence and European DiplomacyChapter Five: The Regional DimensionChapter Six: War Scenarios and Iran’s Defense StrategyChapter Seven: Paths to New US-Iran Diplomacy

Nader Entessar is professor emeritus of political science at the University of South Alabama.Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is political scientist and expert on Iran 's foreign affairs.

This book focuses on the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran nuclear deal.” Arguing in favor of a return to JCPOA, Entessar (emer., Univ. of South Alabama) and Afrasiabi, a political scientist, criticize the administration’s maximum pressure policy toward Iran as unwarranted and unlikely to succeed. They present Iran as a victim of "Iranophobic 'threat inflation'" (p. 190), wrongfully subjected to a “ravaging economic assault by the Trump administration” (p. 77). . . Summing Up: Recommended. . . Graduate students and faculty.

• Chapter One: Trump and Obama’s Mixed Iran LegacyChapter Two: Trump and Iran Nuclear ProgramChapter Three: Maximum Pressure Strategy and Iran’s ResponseChapter Four: Extended Compellence and European DiplomacyChapter Five: The Regional DimensionChapter Six: War Scenarios and Iran’s Defense StrategyChapter Seven: Paths to New US-Iran Diplomacy