Trita Parsi

Now, if the Israelis push again, which I think they will, it will really come to Trump making a decision as to whether he wants the Israelis to decide when the United States goes to war or whether the president of the United States decides when the United States goes to war.

It does correspond with what I heard throughout this entire period, that Trump himself was the person in the White House most eager to go down this path because the Israelis had managed to convince him.

And this also comes through very clearly in this piece.

And it's also what I've been saying on your show in previous interviews.

Trump was convinced to think that this was going to be very, very easy.

And if it was going to be easy, he would never have to deal with these issues of the Iranians controlling the straits, or that this is impacting his poll numbers in the U.S., or that it's impacting inflation and gasoline prices, because this would be over within four days, slightly longer than Venezuela, but far more glorious.

They had managed to convince him of that again, based on rosy pictures and false intelligence.

I just really hope that the president really takes this into account because he is going to be faced with the Israelis very soon pushing him to go back into this war.

They're dead set against this ceasefire.

One of the senior officials in Israel, politicians in Israel, called it the worst political debacle in Israeli history that the ceasefire was reached.

So he's going to have to make a decision.

And learning that he was fed with false intelligence, false assessments by the Israelis should weigh on his mind when he makes his next decision.

next decision.

Where do people go to keep up with your Substack and all your... You should go to Substack at Trita Parsi, Twitter at TParsi, and go to the Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org.

Good to see you.

Good to be with you guys.

Yeah, what was that?

I mean, really, to me, it sounded like a summary of his social media tweets and posts for the last 30 days put kind of in chronological order.

I did not see anything new.

Threats that he has issued before and not acted upon.