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Does Washington care about freedom in Iran? On the surface, it seems like a silly question. Ever since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini swept to power in 1979, Washington policymakers of all political stripes have been holding out hope that a kinder, gentler

“Hostages” explains how they grabbed the power they so violently abuse. "Hostages" is timely and instructive.

The deal to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons was working before former President...

On the 40th anniversary of the release of the Iran hostages, a fictional FSO heroine stirs memories of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and its aftermath.

US diplomat thanks Algeria 40 years after release from detention in Iran Former Iranian hostages Steven Kirtley, Don Hohman, Steven Lauterbach, John Limbert and Paul Needham sit together during the 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony to honor the eight U.S. servicemen who died during the 1980 attempt to free them April 25, 2005 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia [Joe Raedle/Getty Images] January 21, 2021 at 2:34 am On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberati...

To: President Elect Biden and the Biden administration  As experts on Iran, international relations and nonproliferation, we write to fully support the incoming Biden administration in its commitment to make a clean break from the Trump Administration’s failed Iran policy and maximum pressure campaign and return the U.S. to the diplomatic path and full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal. In 2017, President Trump inherited an enviable position...

Believers: Love and Death in Tehran—An Excerpt BY JOHN LIMBERT AND MARC GROSSMAN Background Believers: Love and Death in Tehran (Mazda Publishers, 2020), written by Ambassadors (ret.) Marc Grossman and John Limbert, both AFSA members, is a work of fiction set in Iran and Washington, D.C., during the 1980s and the present. The hero is the fictional FSO Nilufar Hartman, daughter of an Iranian mother and an American father. With the liberty of novelists, the authors have imagined her in scenes b...

Honor. unfortunately, thats the way of the direction hes going. ambassador john limbert. thank you for joining us. >> jake tapper will join us on "state of the union" tomorrow. a family held captive is finally free. a canadian man with his american wife there and three children born in captivity are now safely home telling the world what happened to them. he says the captors authorized the killings of one of their children. details coming up in the cnn newsroom. thats why i rent from national. w...

2013 and its held. both sides have held to it. so if they dont reach an agreement today, then theyre going to have to work tomorrow but theyre going to have to keep working on it. i think the people realize that not only how difficult this is but how importance this is. if its important, its worst doing and worth having both the patience and persistence to do it right. ambassador john limbert, thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. the owner of the patriots takes the stand in a dramatic day ...

gay customers. >> i was proud to sign the religious freedom restoration act last week. this law does not give anyone a license to discriminate. this law does not give anyone a license to deny services to gay and lesbian couples. the religious freedom restoration act was about religious liberty, not about discrimination. >> wait a minute. if theres nothing wrong with the law, then why fix it? if this law isnt about discrimination why change it? the governors position makes no sense. he ...