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Trita Parsi, President, National Iranian American Council and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? Author Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign policy expert interviewed 70 high-ranking officials from the U.S., Iran, Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Brazil—including the top American and Iranian negotiators—for this book. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to Iran and the author discusses the best way to move toward more positive relations between the two discordant states.