The political difficulty of making peace with Iran is similar to that of JFK’s peacemaking with the Soviet Union in 1963. Americans have been suspicious of Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis, in which Iranian students held 52 Americans at the US embassy for 444 days.
伊朗显然是他做得最正确的事情，这是一个应该获得如潮赞誉的历史里程碑。与伊朗缔结和平的政治困难与肯尼迪1963年与苏联和解不相上下。自1979年伊斯兰革命及随后的人质危机（伊朗学生在伊朗大使馆劫持52名美国人达444天之久）以来，美国人对伊朗一直心存怀疑 。但他们的怀疑也反映出强硬外交的操纵和缺少对美伊关系的理解。