Summarizer

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Book: The Devil We Know_________________
_ Chapters: Prologue, Chapter 1___________________
Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your
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My Title: _____New kind of superpower
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The book starts when the author Robert Bauer remembers the first couple of times
he went to Tehran (capital of Iran). He speaks about how he started getting involved in
the history of the Middle East and exactly the political and religious part of the Persian
Gulf. The next thing he tells is how the politics remained after the Iran-Iraq in the 80s,
there Iran got smarter and began using a new form of guerrilla warfare that included the
famous suicide bombers. He explains what he calls the Iranian Paradox about how
Iranian people take pride on that kind of war and make martyrs the soldiers that die in
holy war, this started the revolutionary thinking that Iran is equal to the U.S.A. and could
fight them for the control of oil exports in the Middle East. For most Americans Iran is a
medieval kind of country that will fall when the 21st century strikes them, but this is just
based on beliefs since Iran has a well established plan and thinks not for the money but
for the honor of their beliefs. Iran has made his transformation into a world power.
In chapter one the author tries to make the reader understand that Iranian people
are just like us and watch the same movies from Hollywood but think different than us.
Robert Bauer complains about the un-modernized economy of Tehran but make no
mistake this wont stop Iran from managing other Arabic countries. One of the most
interesting parts of this chapter explains how the families of the suicide bombers are put
to school for free and are threated as heroes since their families make a sacrifice for the
country. The strategy of Iran could take centuries and this is something the western
civilizations dont understand, Iranian government has people in the neighbor countries
as Iraq, the book also explains how the fall of Saddam Hussein meant the fall of the army
that protected the Arabic part of the Middle East and by taking out this army made Iran
the biggest favor of all to install themselves as the controllers of the Persian Gulf since
this happened other countries as Saudi Arabia had to ally with Iran because of this same
falling of Hussein. As the author mentions The Americans still do not understand Irans
strategy even after the invasion of Iraq(Bauer, p.22). The western civilizations still dont
get the Iranian strategy and this means Iran has half the war already won against them,
they can set the prices of oil world wide because 65% of the worlds oil is in this region of
the world.