Powerful, thrilling

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

Director, American Center for Democracy

Edwin Black presents a powerful, expertly detailed account in this page-turner book, highlighting the evidence, analysis, foresight, and warnings he constantly provided to the public and policymakers over the past two decades concerning the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Black’s vivid and flowing account makes a thrilling must-read.

Meticulous, riveting

Clare Lopez

Newsmax security analyst

Israel Strikes Iran is the meticulously researched and historically invaluable backstory to the Iranian regime’s decades-long quest for a deliverable nuclear weapon. Edwin Black, a brilliant historian brings his expertise to this detailed probe of how close Iran came to the brink of unleashing Armageddon. This book is the riveting, must-read story of that effort.

Brilliantly assembled, striking

Alex Traiman

JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief

Edwin Black has once again not only recorded history but predicted it. Black began researching and writing Israel Strikes Iran years before the strike took place, presciently envisaging that Iran’s nuclear ambitions would eventually be ended by Israeli air power. As he has done over and over again in his compendium of award-winning historical narratives, Black has brilliantly assembled the striking backstory that ultimately led up to Israel’s stunning Operation Rising Lion.

Unparalleled, analytical wizardry

Josh Block

Hudson Institute adjunct fellow

One of the first journalists to understand the gravity of this story and to share its urgency with the world is Edwin Black. For more than two decades, he has applied his considerable investigative skills, unparalleled sourcing, and analytical wizardry to alerting his readers to the developments and dangers along the way ... Israel Strikes Iran tells the true story of how we got to the point of confrontation, what happened along the way, and perhaps what will happen in the future.

Master of the backstory

Shoshana Bryen

The Algemeiner

Black, the award-winning investigative journalist and NY Times bestselling author, has been watching and writing about Iranian nuclear progress for decades … Author of a dozen books — including the terrifying IBM and the Holocaust and equally terrifying Financing the Flames — Black is the master of the backstory.

Read the full review at The Algemeiner.

A must-read

Jewish Policy Center

Edwin Black’s new book, Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion: The 20-Year Backstory, is a must-read … The lessons are in plain English.

Unbelievably well-researched, essential

David Green

Chair, Endowment for Middle East Truth

Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion: The 20-Year Backstory is an unbelievably well-researched effort, providing even greater detail about Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Iran’s rabid attempt to deliver a nuclear holocaust to Israel and the Jewish people. 
 

Riveting, a thriller

The J✶Canada

The strength of Black’s narrative lies in his sourcing. He leverages accounts from Mossad insiders, statements by Israeli military leaders, and interviews with defense analysts to paint a vivid picture of how airstrikes on Natanz, Fordow, and other facilities dismantled Iran’s “point of no return.” The book’s pacing mirrors a thriller … reveals rigorous scholarship befitting a New York Times bestselling historian.