<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/85532520-ccbc-4184-ab74-d2e31d7ea669/D8A1FC64-8345-4317-8A84-D2F0817DD354/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/11/former-u-s-hostage-appointed-senior-iran-official-at-state-department/" href="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/11/former-u-s-hostage-appointed-senior-iran-official-at-state-department/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.irannewsdigest.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/11/former-u-s-hostage-appointed-senior-iran-official-at-state-department/"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Former_US_Hostage_Appointed_Senior_Iran_Official_At_State_Department/1875367.html"><IMG align="left" src="http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/images/newslogo/RADIOFREEEUROPE.gif" /></A>John Limbert, a veteran U.S. diplomat and former hostage held in Iran for 444 days, has <A target="_blank" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/1109/Former_US_diplomat_hostage_in_Tehran_takes_up_Iran_post_at_State_.html"><STRONG>reportedly been appointed</STRONG></A> as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/11/former-u-s-hostage-appointed-senior-iran-official-at-state-department/"><P>Limbert will be involved in negotiations with Iran, along with under secretary of state for political affairs, William Burns…Limbert, a career diplomat, is a fluent Persian speaker who has published several books on Iran including a recent one on how to engage the Islamic Republic, titled “Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/11/former-u-s-hostage-appointed-senior-iran-official-at-state-department/"><P>…<STRONG>Here’s a <A href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Khamenei_Visits_US_Hostages/1868607.html"><STRONG>video</STRONG></A> <SPAN>[IND: Limbert's  Persian is simply amazing] </SPAN>of Iran’s then Deputy Defense Minister Ali Khamenei talking with Limbert while he was being held hostage in Tehran for 14 months, often in solitary confinement. </STRONG>The video was recently posted on Khamenei’s website.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8A1FC64-8345-4317-8A84-D2F0817DD354/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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