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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Uh, that is nevertheless a way for them to find an agreement in which they will frankly back down uh on a lot of the to a lot of the demands that the Iranis are making without making too big of a deal of it.
And to be frank with you, that is
Perhaps what they need to do.
I wrote a piece on my Substack about the fact that there's a conflation here taking place between what actually is the core interest of the United States and what is a secondary interest.
Uh traditionally the US interest has may been to make sure that the there's a free flow of commerce that is non-discriminatory and predictable.
That is the core interest.
Whoever controls or
Um manages a specific waterway is a secondary interest, and it's only important to the it in to the point in which it impacts the primary interest, which is the free flow.
If you have a deal between Iran and Oman that is endorsed by the US and others, that at the end of the day ensures that there is free flow of commerce and it's non-discriminatory, even if there's uh service fees, etc., that is the achievement of the core American interests.
The issue of control of it is secondary.
And because of this conflation, we're now again going to war once more without any positive results in order to achieve a secondary aim, even though the primary aim can be achieved through diplomacy.
So I just want to say I think one has to have a tremendous amount of humility in analyzing this because there's so little of the actual processes of the Ivania system right now that is fully known to us.
It's always been an opaque system.
It's even more opaque now since the war began, since the killing of the previous um uh Supreme Leader.
Uh the person who is replaced is old guard, the person that is coming in is
also old guard in fact they're old friends.
So it seems to be a reshuffling that has more to do with internal factions uh playing against each other rather than necessarily an indication of policy direction.
I frankly do not see a tremendous amount of difference between Zorad and uh Rezay on these different issues.
But it is a person um who has played a very critical role in Iran's decision-making.
In the past that was kind of pushed out and has now come back in again.
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