America Will Pay the Price for Israel’s War on Iran (w/ Trita Parsi)

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Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and one of the leading analysts of U.S.–Iran relations.

In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, he explains how the escalating U.S.–Israel war on Iran is affecting civilians, how sanctions and propaganda shaped the political climate leading up to the conflict, and why Israel and the United States may see the war very differently in strategic terms. Parsi also discusses why he believes the war is a mistake for Washington, how Trump ended up launching it, how the conflict might end, and how a very different path might have been possible if diplomacy had prevailed.

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0:00-7:08 The human toll of the war

7:08-9:49 Justifying the unjustifiable

9:49-12:45 What is Israel’s strategy?

12:45-14:51 America will pay the price for Israel

14:51-20:13 Why did Trump get the U.S. into this war?

20:13-23:02 How does this war end?

23:02-24:16 What is Europe doing?

24:16-29:23 How things could have been different

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