Negotiating with Iran

In his preface to this book, Mark Bowden states that John Limbert is “thebest American friend Iran had” (p. ix) and that the United States is “not anineteenth-century-style imperial power bent on colonizing smallernations.” Thus, Iranian suspicions of it as well as their suspecting (re)actions were “inexplicable.” This was particularly so as in the case when the UnitedStates became one of the “primary victims of Iran’s assault on internationalcivility” (pp. x-xi). With this auspicious introduction, Bowden inauguratesLimbert’s study on how to negotiate with Iran ...