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The book was described as a welltimed work that powerfully recounts how the U.S.-Iran relationship shifted from close alliance to deep animosity, exploring the many missed chances that could have altered the course of history.
you, not long before the war began, told that story in what turned out to be a very welltimed book called King of Kings.
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The book was described as a welltimed work that powerfully recounts how the U.S.-Iran relationship shifted from close alliance to deep animosity, exploring the many missed chances that could have altered the course of history.
you, not long before the war began, told that story in what turned out to be a very welltimed book called King of Kings.
And what your book so powerfully recounts is that this relationship between the U.S. and Iran wasn't always filled with animus.
That's what I take from your book in this conversation.
The thing that is always fascinated by the story and why I wrote the book is that it just seemed it could have ended so many different ways and so many less tragic ways.
In my book, I write about one junior foreign service officer, Michael Matrinko, who spoke Farsi, unlike virtually everybody else in the American embassy.
