The Axis of Evil Speech in Kabul

In January 2002 president George W Bush delivered his first post 9-11 state of the union address he named Iran as part of an axis of evil alongside Iraq and North Korea three nations which notably did not collaborate or work together in any meaningful sense of the word this declaration took Iran by surprise considering their soldiers were literally fighting alongside the United States in Afghanistan. Ryan Crocker was deputy chief of the American Embassy in Kabul at the time for a job that required him to communicate regularly with the representative of the Iranian government. He had not been warned that the United States was about to declare Iran part of anaxis of evil in a speech and he was very unpleasantly surprised when he realized what