Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administrations emphasis on military intervention refusal to negotiate & pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a definitive & comprehensive analysis of the Obama administrations early diplomatic outreach to Iran & discusses the best way to move toward more positive relations between the two discordant states. Trita Parsi a Middle East foreign policy expert with extensive Capitol Hill & United Nations experience interviewed 70 high-ranking officials from the U.S. Iran Europe Israel Saudi Arabia Turkey & Brazil
- including the top American & Iranian negotiators
- for this book. Parsi uncovers the previously unknown story of American & Iranian negotiations during Obamas early years as president the calculations behind the two nations dealings & the real reasons for their current stalemate. Contrary to prevailing opinion Parsi contends that diplomacy has not been fully tried. For various reasons Obamas diplomacy ended up being a single roll of the dice. It had to work either immediately or not at all. Persistence & perseverance are keys to any negotiation. Neither Iran nor the U.S. had them in 2009.