Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300218168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eric C. Petersen said A great book about a very important event. First rate - continuously interesting and very well written by one of the real experts on U.S.-Iranian relations. For the ten years preceding Obama's second term, negotiations on Iran's nuclear program had gone nowhere and positions had hardened: Iran, as a member of the NPT, claimed it had the sovereign right to enrich, the EU and the U.S. demanded a halt to all enrichment, and the key political players on both sides were not personalities
"An astute and generous portrayal of both sides of the negotiating table."—Kirkus Reviews
Drawing from more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with key decision-makers, including Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, this is the first authoritative account of President Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement.. Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign policy expert who advised the Obama White House throughout the talks and had access to decision-makers and diplomats on the U.S. and Iranian sides alike, examines every facet of a triumph that could become as important and consequential as Nixon’s rapprochement with China. The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with Iran and prevented the possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb. The definitive book on Obama’s historic nuclear dea