limbert: -- dr. parsi-- amb. limbert: if there is some agreement on what it is called the nuclear issue, we and the iranians are still going to have a lot of differences between us. that is true. issues about the middle east issues about terrorism, issues about human rights. those are not going to go away. but what we will be able to do and we have not been able to do for the last 35 years is to talk about them. to sit down as states do, as governments do. this idea of iran, however, as some in. power that -- as some imperial power that wants to extend its reach all over the middle east and re-create a new persian empire, i don't know where that comes from. i am a teacher of history. students know there has not been a persian since 640 ad. there's not going to be one. iran u.n. is isolated for reasons of language, geography and religion . the idea that we and our friends are facing some kind of resurgent persian empire, to me that is scare talk. that is not historical or history driven or reality driven, n