Leading Diplomats, Experts and Organizations Call on Obama to Reinvigorate Diplomacy with Iran

For immediate release: January 20, 2011
Press contact: Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, (202) 463-8270 x 107

(Washington, D.C.) On the eve of talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Istanbul, a diverse group of diplomats, arms control experts, Iran experts, democracy and human rights defenders, and leading Iranian-American, Jewish-American, and pro-peace organizations issued a statement urging the Obama Administration to reinvigorate diplomacy with Iran.

The experts include Ambassador John Limbert, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran; Sir Richard Dalton, the former British Ambassador to Iran; Bruno Pellaud, the former Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Gary Sick, who served at the NSC as the principal White House adviser on Iran; Chas Freeman, the former American Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association.

For complete text of the letter and press release by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) click here