Trita Parsi
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3,028 appearances
17 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Trita Parsi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's in the camp of saying, let's blame Netanyahu, let's go back to a slower pace, but it's gonna be the pretty much the same policy.
We're gonna blame.
Blame a little bit on some of the most extreme settlers, as if that is the problem.
Whereas in reality, the settlers are a symptom of the larger problem of occupation as a whole.
So, first of all, in in terms of what the Houthis are doing, I think what you're pointing to is something very, very important.
There's been a narrative that has been created that has some elements of truth in it, almost all narratives do.
That the efforts that the Trump administration has done in this trade has partially opened it and put a lot of pressure on the Iranians.
Here's where things go off the rails.
As a result, the narrative in the Western media has been the US is winning this, Iran is uh has doesn't have time on its side, this is soon gonna be over with.
And that's where everything goes completely wrong.
Because the reality is that the Iranians still have a lot of leverage that they have not exercised.
We're seeing already that they're willing to be more uh aggressive in targeting US ships, targeting US.
spaces, we saw what happened in Jordan.
We know now, at least I spoke to a former US official who told me earlier today that the only reason why the Iranians have not blown up an American ship is simply because they have chosen not to do so.
Not that they can't, that they have chosen not to do so and it could be many different reasons why they have not chosen to do so yet.
But the other element of it is the Houthis.
And we knew that already before, that one of the additional escalatory steps, counter-escalatory steps the Ivanis could take, was to work with the Houthis to close the Babel Mandub.
And what you just pointed to is that now we're seeing that taking place.
And this is the problem with the narrative, the very superficial narrative that we have had in Washington, which is that just because the Trump administration has
Uh additional leverage vis-a-vis Iran, perhaps, does not in any way, shape, shape, or form mean that the strategic situation has changed.
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