In Defense of Iran attempts to answer the many charges being made by Washington and the news media against Iran. The book is based on the People's Peace Delegation to Iran, a journey organized by the author and co-sponsored by The Richmond Defender newspaper and the Virginia Anti-War Network. That experience is supplemented by extensive research and the advice and contributions of many Iranians, Iranian-Americans and U.S. progressives. The goal of this effort is to try and help the public understand that, just as we were lied to about Iraq- resulting in an extremely costly and unjust war, we are now being lied to again, about Iran.