Target Tehran, Yonah Jeremy Bob
Target Tehran, Yonah Jeremy Bob
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Target Tehran
How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East

Author: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics
Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Prize

“One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far” (Michael Bar-Zohar, coauthor of Mossad) about how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar—and diplomacy—to thwart Iran’s development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, begin to reshape the Middle East.

Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal action, Israel has managed to alter the politics of the Middle East, culminating in the Abraham Accords of 2020. Arab states such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates normalized relations with Israel, and the holy grail of normalization with Saudi Arabia may yet be achieved. Despite the war with Hamas, these Arab states share Israel’s concern with Iran, remaining silent while Israel undermines Iran’s nuclear program.

Bob and Evyatar reveal how Israel has used documents stolen from Tehran in a daring, secret Mossad raid to show the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency how Iran has repeatedly violated the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement and lied about its active nuclear weapons program. Drawing from interviews with top confidential Israeli and US sources, including from the Mossad and the CIA, the authors tell the “thrilling” (Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds) inside story of the tumultuous, and often bloody, history of how Israel has managed to outmaneuver Iran—so far.

About Yonah Jeremy Bob

Yonah Jeremy Bob is the senior military and intelligence analyst as well as the book review editor for The Jerusalem Post. Hailing originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Yonah has close connections with many Israeli intelligence figures and previously worked in the Israeli military international law division, at the Israeli Embassy to the UN, and in the Israeli Justice Ministry. He is the author of Justice in the West Bank? and the editor and translator of A Raid on the Red Sea, an intelligence thriller whose principal author is Amos Gilboa, a former IDF deputy chief of intelligence.

About Ilan Evyatar

Ilan Evyatar is a former editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine The Jerusalem Report, and a former news director, columnist, and senior contributor at The Jerusalem Post. He has edited and translated several books and has worked as a speechwriter and ghostwriter. Born in Israel and raised in London, England, he has interviewed a wide variety of top intelligence officials, as well as leading political, business, and cultural personalities.


Reviews

Goodreads review by A. on April 27, 2024

By mostly sheer coincidence (that's when the reserved book came in to the library), I started reading Target Tehran 3 days before Iran attacked Israel. I'm not sure how much is slanted (though Bibi Netanyahu's decisions are looked at pretty critically and the question is frequently asked openly if h......more

Goodreads review by Jenni on April 28, 2024

Deeply-sourced contemporary book about (1) the Iran nuclear agreement (i.e., the JCPOA) and Israel’s ongoing shadow war with Iran in its efforts to go nuclear, (2) the Abraham Accords that Israel has made with the UAE and other moderate Sunni states, and (3) Israel’s ongoing efforts to normalize rel......more

Goodreads review by skip thurnauer on October 21, 2023

I requested this book about a month ago and started reading it after the Hamas raid on Israeli settlements. Like many people, I was surprised that Israeli Mossad and U.S. intelligence agencies were unprepared for the Hamas incursion and the murders of hundreds of civilians. I’m even more shocked aft......more

Goodreads review by Gamespacenl on November 20, 2024

Very well reported and accessible read on the Israel/Iran covert war(s) written by Israeli journalists.......more

Goodreads review by Naim on November 17, 2023

This is an excellent book that chronicles Israel’s secret war against Iran and the efforts that led to Israel’s peace treaties known as the Abraham Accords. Written like a novel, the Mossad directors Meir Dagan, Tamir Pardo and Yossi Cohen shine not only as top spies but as diplomats as well. These......more