Iran: The Resort to Weapons?

Even though the daily's excerpts is replete with sentences such as "President Bush's expedition in Iraq", "the American propaganda machine", "the Bush administration's propaganda on the eve of the Iraq invasion", and "the Bush administration's catastrophic record" (few such sentences about Tehran; in fact the author spends most of the time not only denying Washington any good marks but making sure his readers understand that it is in spite of America's policies, and not because of them, that it is — tentatively [hence the question mark] — that he is coming to a bitter conclusion), François Heisbourg's book, Iran, le choix des armes ?, does not seem to convince Le Monde's smarter-than-thou readers…