Review"Simultaneously, Iran is the modern iteration of one of human history's richest civilizations and a paranoid jihadist state bent on global conquest, the destruction of Israel, and 'Death to America.' It is our most immediate threat, yet one strangely remote from our understanding. In The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran, Robert Spencer punctures our common misconceptions and Washington’s dangerous delusions about Iran, bringing to bear his unique blend of fearlessness, erudition, and clear-eyed analysis. All Americans, and most especially the political class, would do well to read this highly accessible book and grasp the challenge that confronts us."
— Andrew C. McCarthy, bestselling author, National Review contributing editor, and former federal prosecutor
"Robert Spencer has succeeded where many fail, sweeping through Iran's history with a sure touch and an eye for the essential. He has also understood the monumental significance of Iran's material contribution to the September 11, 2001 plot. Despite sectarian enmity, Sunnis and Shia can get along just fine when it comes to killing Jews and Americans."
— Kenneth R. Timmerman, President, Foundation for Democracy in Iran
"This masterpiece illuminates the most lethal threats against America and civilization today. Iran aims at global and hegemonic control through its terror networks, which are widely dispersed over the planet. Robert Spencer's vivid, lucid, and comprehensive record of Iran's genocidal apocalyptic nuclear program gives us an invaluable and perspicuous tool for understanding current crucial topics. Essential reading to prevent mass extermination."
— Bat Ye'or, author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
"Robert Spencer is arguably the most knowledgeable, authoritative, and prolific of American infidels with respect to sharia, jihad, and their most dangerous state sponsor: the Islamic Republic of Iran. Naturally, his is the complete guide for what all of us—Muslim and non-Muslim alike—need to know about Iran."
— Frank Gaffney, founding president of the Center for Security Policy
"Eye-opening. Sobering. Informative. Gripping. The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran is a comprehensive and unique look at the world's foremost and most dangerous rogue state. It's what every American needs to know about the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Robert Spencer makes it all clear: Iran's magnificent history and terrible present, the full horror of the Obama-Kerry nuclear deal, Iran's global anti-U.S. and anti-Israel adventurism, its role in 9/11, and the warped theology that makes it so eager to destroy Israel. No one who cares about America's future and the survival of the free world should miss this book."
— Pamela Geller, president, American Freedom Defense Initiative
"Iran is the gravest threat to world peace today, and in this essential new book, Robert Spencer explains why. From all the astonishing details of just how disastrous Obama's nuke deal is to Iran's continuing war footing toward the U.S. and Israel and the shocking beliefs that may lead the Iranians to decide to nuke Israel, it's all here. The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran should be placed on the desk of every official in Washington — especially in the Oval Office."
— Steven Emerson, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and author of Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America
"The brilliant and courageous Robert Spencer rips to shreds the claim that the Iran nuclear deal will bring peace to the world and shows the truly shocking extent to which Iran is a threat to the stability not just of the Middle East, but of the entire world—and has been for decades, while all too many American leaders have dithered, temporized, and appeased it. The Islamic Revolution (enabled by Jimmy Carter), the hostage crisis, the Green Movement—it's all here, including little-known facts about Iran's role in 9/11 and its sponsorship of terror around the globe. Here is the one book that will put to rest forever the idea that the Islamic Republic will ever be a peaceful member of the family of nations, and shows what's at stake if our leaders continue to pretend otherwise."
— Lieutenant General (ret.) William G. "Jerry" Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence 2002–2007
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Our Most Dangerous Enemy
Think it's ISIS? Think again.
Iran is the terrorist powerhouse of the world—made all the more dangerous by the disastrous "nuclear deal" that restricts Iran's nuclear ambitions hardly at all.
The Iranian government is an open enemy of the United States—and of anyone who dissents from Shia Islam.
Iran confronts U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf "on a near daily basis."
It executes more of its citizens than any other nation.
It is a country torn by hypocrisy—lectured by mullahs, and with brutally enforced Islamic religious laws, but rife with alcoholism.
Once America's ally, Iran now claims leadership of the global jihad, and the ayatollahs' aim is nothing less than world conquest for Islam.
In his extraordinary new book, The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer reveals:
How the Iranian “nuclear deal” is sheer capitulation to the mullahs, allowing Iran to inspect its own facilities and pursue nuclear weapons
Iran’s long-standing support for terrorists—including shocking evidence that Iran helped plan the 9/11 attacks
Why Iran wants nuclear weapons—clue: it’s not about deterrence
American diplomatic folly—why the Obama administration has grossly underestimated the Iranian threat
A new grand strategy: how Iran's Shi'ite terrorism might be contained and its threat to the United States reduced
The Islamic Republic is already at war with America. If we refuse to recognize that fact, we are only falling prey to the mullahs' campaign of duplicity.
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran exposes the true nature of the threat, lays out what America must do to defeat it, and gives you all the information you need about America's least understood yet potentially most lethal foe.
ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of seventeen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel's Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Coming in November 2017 is Confessions of an Islamophobe (Bombardier Books).
Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He is a consultant with the Center for Security Policy and vice president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
Spencer is a weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, and has written many hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Fox News Opinion, National Review, The Hill, the Detroit News, TownHall.com, Real Clear Religion, the Daily Caller, the New Criterion, the Journal of International Security Affairs, the UK’s Guardian, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, Aleteia, and many other journals. For nearly ten years Spencer wrote the weekly Jihad Watch column at Human Events. He has also served as a contributing writer to the Investigative Project on Terrorism and as an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation.
Spencer has appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews’s O’Reilly Factor, Megyn Kelly’s The Kelly File, the Sean Hannity Show, Geraldo Rivera Reports, the Glenn Beck Show, Fox and Friends, America’s News HQ and many other Fox programs, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, CTV News, France24, Voice of Russia and Croatia National Television (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including The Sean Hannity Show, Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor, The Mark Levin Show, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Herman Cain Show, The Joe Piscopo Show, The Howie Carr Show, The Curt Schilling Show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Peter Boyles Show, Vatican Radio, and many others.
Robert Spencer has been a featured speaker at the University of California-Irvine, Temple University, Dartmouth College, Penn State University, the University of California-Los Angeles, Stanford University, New York University, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, State University of New York-Binghamton, State University of New York-Stony Brook, Florida State University, DePaul University, the College of William and Mary, Washington University of St. Louis, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Boise State University, Cal Poly, Portland State University, and many other colleges and universities. He has also addressed the Heritage Foundation, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in New York City, the Hudson Institute, the Temple of the Arts in Los Angeles, the San Diego Jewish Book Fair, the Young Presidents’ Organization, Calvary Chapel Pacific Coast, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), FreedomFest, Young America’s Foundation, Hershey’s Sweet Retreat, the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, Train the Trainer, and many other audiences.
A complete listing of Robert Spencer’s books:
Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books)
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing)
Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (with Daniel Ali) (Ascension Press)
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (Prometheus Books)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery Publishing)
The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion (Regnery Publishing)
Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t (Regnery Publishing)
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs (Regnery Publishing)
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran (Regnery Publishing)
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America (with Pamela Geller) (Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster)
Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins (ISI Books)
Not Peace But A Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam (Catholic Answers Press)
Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In (Regnery Publishing)
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS (Regnery Publishing)
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran (Regnery Publishing)
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies) (coming in 2017 from Regnery Publishing)
Confessions of an Islamophobe (coming in 2017 from Bombardier Books)
Spencer’s books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, Korean, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia. His Qur’an commentary at Jihad Watch, Blogging the Qur’an, has been translated into Czech, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
