Losing an Enemy, Trita Parsi
Losing an Enemy, Trita Parsi
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Losing an Enemy
Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

Author: Trita Parsi

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 17 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2017


Synopsis

This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts.

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. 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.

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.

About Trita Parsi

Trita Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He lives in Reston, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on January 08, 2020

Losing an Enemy is now a profoundly depressing book, being an extensive history of an agreement that could have started erasing fifty years of bad blood between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States. I say “could have”, because as of January 2020, that agreement is about as healthy as Q......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 28, 2021

If this were a just world this would be one of the most read books on the last 20 years of US foreign policy. Because unlike all those fevered meditations on Islam and the West, and those documents of wars we won only to lose the peace... this book documents a success. The book is Trita Parsi's firs......more

Goodreads review by Rea on February 22, 2018

Trita Parsi, fluent in English and Farsi and acquainted with all the major players in the diplomacy that took three years to produce the Iran nuclear deal, is uniquely qualified to write this account. He has an intimate knowledge of both US and Iranian politics. It is his step-by-step focus on the e......more

Goodreads review by Dave on September 09, 2017

amazing book. and i fucking love diplomats. lets hope it lasts through our current shit government. and lol bibi.......more

Goodreads review by Ali on December 14, 2018

Trita Parsi wrote an insightful account on how the nuclear deal was finalised, not only how things were agreed in 2015 but the background events that were taking place. He brought us closer to the mindsets of both the Iranian and US policy makers, the difficulties both faced, the external factors, a......more