About this episode
Trita Parsi discusses the implications of the ongoing Middle East conflict and the potential future landscape of the region.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest this week is Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of three remarkable books on the relationship between the United States, Israel and Iran. For as long as I’ve followed Trita’s work, he’s been warning that if hawks in Washington got their way, we would end up with the kind of catastrophe we’re witnessing in the Middle East. I invited him to give us a sense of what the Middle East and the world will look like going forward. Topics include… the likelihood of peace talks failing the importance of Lebanon how this war has affected Iran’s internal trajectory Iran’s nuclear capabilities the war’s effect on the US and Israeli militaries how Trump came to the decision to fight this war facing charges of self-hatred from the diaspora
People in this episode
Host: Peter Beinart
Guest: Trita Parsi
Topics covered
- Middle East conflict
- US foreign policy
- Iran nuclear capabilities
- military implications
- peace talks
- internal politics of Iran
Keywords
- Middle East
- Iran
- Israel
- US military
- peace talks
- Trump
- nuclear capabilities
- Lebanon
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Places: United States, Israel, Iran, Lebanon
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