A Success Story Negotiating With Iran

Photo by Alireza Heydarifard

Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citizen, I can recount a story of successful negotiations I had with the Iranian government several years ago in a very different environment, fully aware of the tension between the United States and Iran and the positive role Switzerland’s “good offices” played between the two countries.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989...