Trita Parsi
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3,028 appearances
17 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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Because for that to have happened, you have to then assume that the Iranians do not have any counter escalatory options.
And they clearly do plenty of counter escalatory options.
And now we're seeing two of them.
What they're doing against ships, and of course, even more important.
Importantly, perhaps their willingness to choke uh the global um uh energy markets by closing also the uh Babul Mandab.
And I think it's gonna be extremely difficult for the United States to simultaneously fight the Houthis in the Red Sea and fight the Iranians um uh in the Persian Gulf.
And we see oil prices are now around $106, $107, gone up about $20 just in the last couple of
weeks which clearly shows that any belief that the US could just maintain the situation, calm it, uh have some level of stability before the midterms was truly uh um uh false and and over exaggerated in terms of what the capacity of the US is.
Okay, on the first one, uh, I think there's different narratives out there.
What I've been hearing is that they shot these missiles.
It's apparently not ballistic missile, some sort of a new missile.
Deliberately exploding it above the ship.
causing some damage, but not a direct hit at all, deliberately, as essentially a warning.
And those ships did leave the terr that area after this warning and and apparently did take the US a bit by surprise.
So now if let's say it was the other narrative, the one that you mentioned, that they shot f two and they missed.
Yeah, absolutely.
If they shoot f four or eight or so, at some point they're gonna hit.
Um and if it's a direct hit it will cause significant damage, large number of casualties and potentially even sinking one of those ships.
So I think it's only a question of time if this gradual escalation continues in which that unfortunately will happen.
And then it comes to the question of when will they do it.
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