Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-209) and index.
Inaugurating Iran's radical alterity : shifting geopolitics, oxymoronic voices -- Modernity in crisis : Israeli pipe dreams of Euro-America and the Iranian threat -- Iran and the Jewish state's repertoires of violence in the post-9/11 world -- The unclassifiable : Iran's Jews in Zionist-Israeli imagination -- Postscript : a few comments on a "known rapist."