John Sullivan was barely out of his teens when his uncle William, a Foreign Service officer who served as the last U.S. ambassador in Tehran, was briefly taken captive at his embassy during Iran’s revolutionary tumult in 1979.
Four decades later, Sullivan himself is an American ambassador and under siege in a different, but still eerie, way. He’s in Russia, trying to stop a war, while leading an isolated, barely staffed embassy under constant watch and pressure from the Kremlin.
If history is rhyming, it’s partly because Sullivan’s uncle — whose experience was captured in a Newsweek cover Sullivan proudly displays in his office — deeply impressed upon
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