Target Iran

Scott Ritter
September 2006     ISBN: 1560259361

Target Iran is Scott Ritter's "national intelligence assessment" of the Iranian imbroglio. Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s, examines the Bush administration's regime-change policy and the potential of Iran to threaten U.S. national security interests.

In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Scott Ritter was one of the few public figures courageous enough to challenge the lies spread by the Bush administration and the mainstream media concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

In the wake of the debacle in Iraq, Ritter has been vindicated, but now the White House and its neoconservative allies are raising the alarm about Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frequently attacks Israel and the West in his speeches and has claimed that the Holocaust is a myth.

"The most important thing to know about Scott Ritter, the man is that he was right. He told us again and again in 2002 and early 2003 as President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared for war in Iraq that there were no weapons... In this book, Ritter digs deeply into his pocket of secrets and tells far more than he has in the past about the inability of the White House, be it Bill Clinton's or George Bush's, and the intelligence bureaucrats to listen to real-time information suggesting that Saddam's WMD arsenal was empty." --Seymour Hersh

"In his latest expose, Ritter trains his inspector's eyes on Iran, meticulously analyzing the rhetoric about Tehran beginning with the first Bush presidency when Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, then skeptically parsing the protracted, politically tangled wrangling over Iran's nuclear program, and vehemently objecting to what he sees as excessive American alignment with Israel... In closing, Ritter offers shrewd observations about why things have cooled off regarding Iran as the midterm elections loom and cautions that war with Iran would be catastrophic and must be averted."
--Booklist

Scott Ritter was one of the UN's top weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Before working for the UN, he served as an officer in the US Marines and as a ballistic missile adviser to General H. Norman Schwartzkopf in the first Gulf War. He is the author of many books, including Iraq Confidential. He lives in New York State.

Watch Scott Ritter on Democracy Now! talking about the Republican National Convention, Joe Biden, and the possibility of an attack on Iran. Read more about Ritter here.