2010.06.28: June 28, 2010: A career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Iran RPCV John Limbert retired from a 33-year career with the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister-Counselor
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2010.06.28: June 28, 2010: A career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Iran RPCV John Limbert retired from a 33-year career with the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister-Counselor
A career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Iran RPCV John Limbert retired from a 33-year career with the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister-Counselor
Limbert told POLITICO that he's leaving the job because he can only take a one year leave of absence from his academic job at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he has taught since 2006. He previously served as the president of the American Foreign Service Association from 2003-2005. On July 1, he's due to speak to a Tel Aviv think tank at the invitation of his friend David Menashri, of Tel Aviv University, Israel's leading Iran expert.
A career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Iran RPCV John Limbert retired from a 33-year career with the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister-Counselor
Top State Iran hand to retire, again
One of the premier Iran experts in the U.S. government will step down from his job next month.
A career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, John Limbert retired from a 33-year career with the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He returned to the State Department last fall from academia to become the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran.
A fluent Farsi speaker and Harvard PhD in history and Middle Eastern studies, Limbert was taken hostage with other diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. He met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during that ordeal, and was later awarded the State Department's highest honor, its Distinguished Service Award as well as an Award for Valor. He had previously served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Shiraz, Iran in the 1960s.
As Obama was coming into office in January 2009 hoping to engage Iran, Limbert published a book Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling with the Ghosts of History. But alas Obama's and Limbert's hopes for U.S. Iran outreach have to date been frustrated.
Limbert told POLITICO that he's leaving the job because he can only take a one year leave of absence from his academic job at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he has taught since 2006. He previously served as the president of the American Foreign Service Association from 2003-2005. On July 1, he's due to speak to a Tel Aviv think tank at the invitation of his friend David Menashri, of Tel Aviv University, Israel's leading Iran expert.
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