Abdul Amir al-Anbari

Abdul Amir al-Anbari studied law at Baghdad and Harvard and served as Iraq’s ambassador in London before moving to Washington in 1987. His American posting coincided with the final phase of the Iran–Iraq War and the ceasefire of August 1988. ^{1, 2}

After the ceasefire, al-Anbari joined the Iraqi delegation to peace negotiations in Geneva, traveling between those talks and Washington. He then moved to the United Nations in New York as the negotiations continued. ¹