Key figures in the secret U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks:
UNITED STATES
—President Barack Obama: Making good on a promise in his first inaugural to "extend a hand" to countries like Iran, Obama authorizes secret, one-on-one contacts between American and Iranian officials after the release of two American hikers from an Iranian prison in September 2011.
Obama then taps Burns as one of two men to meet with the Iranians in secret this year.
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| Deputy Assistant to the President Jake Sullivan, 1991 Graduate of Southwest High School |
—Jake Sullivan, deputy assistant to the president and national security adviser to the vice president: Still in his 30s, Sullivan is a rising star of U.S. foreign policy. After serving as a Senate aide, the former Rhodes scholar joins Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and then follows her to the State Department, rising to policy planning chief in 2011. When Clinton leaves government in February, Sullivan moves over to the White House to become Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser. Shortly after, Obama entrusts him with co-leading the Oman mission.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53648701/ns/us_news/t/key-players-us-iran-secret-talks/
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