The world's number one power - The haven of jihad - The focus of the universe - The triple oxymoron - Democracy as enemy - Iran and anti-Iran - Unwelcome faith - A strange beast - The feeble ones - The prophet and women - The eternal conspirator - Esther and the king - The great satan - Five days in August - A universal ideology - Sunrise power against sunset power - Crazy Eddie and Martyr Hussein - West stricken, Arab stricken - State or revolution - Six centers of power - Six rival centers of power - Power points in a no-man's land - The nail of the Imam - We can! - A case of national schizophrenia - Pre-emptive war or pre-emptive surrender? - Conditions for regime change - Repression and resistance - The ethnic time bomb - A heaving volcano.