Provides an insider's account of the most significant attempt to resolve the Iran-America crisis-and why it failed.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Iran's chief spokesman during the critical 2003-2005 negotiations and a senior figure in Iranian foreign policy for over three decades, provides the first comprehensive Iranian account of these diplomatic struggles. With unprecedented access to Iran's decision-making apparatus and working relationships with many of the personalities who shaped these negotiations, Mousavian reveals the internal deliberations, miscalculations, and missed opportunities that have marked these talks. This book goes beyond the technical aspects of nuclear negotiations to explore the deeper cultural, political, and strategic forces that have shaped Iranian foreign policy since the 1979 Revolution. Mousavian draws on his unique perspective as both an insider who participated in key decisions and a scholar at Princeton University analyzing and commenting on these events. The result is an essential work for understanding not only Iran's nuclear program but the broader challenges of diplomacy between Washington and Teheran.