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Book by former Iran official looks at Quds Force leader, Saudi king

In a new book, former Iranian negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian details previously unpublicized Iranian overtures to the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Mousavian, head of foreign policy committee at Iran's Supreme National Security Council talks with Reuters during an interview in Tehran.  Hossein Mousavian, head of the foreign policy committee at Iran's Supreme National Security Council talks with Reuters during an interview in Tehran October 9, 2004. Iran has earlier rejected the American proposal of supplying the country with nuclear fuel for power generation if Iran abandons its own fuel-making capability, saying it would be "irrational" for Iran to je

For the last few years, Al-Monitor's Seyed Hossein Mousavian has been among the most prolific Iranian writers in the United States promoting US-Iran reconciliation and trying to explain his complicated and often maligned country to American audiences.

In a new book, "Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace," Mousavian continues this mission while revealing new details of fruitless overtures by Iranian leaders to ease hostilities over the past two decades.

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