2/27/23 Trita Parsi: Biden Opens the Door to War in the Middle East

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Scott talks with Trita Parsi who just wrote an article for Responsible Statecraft about the path to a new war breaking out in the Middle East. In the article, Parsi runs through the history of tension between Israel and Iran to demonstrate that, while certainly not being partial to Iran, the American government has often stepped in and pushed back against the worst of Israel’s warmongering. However, that is no longer the case. Parsi and Scott examine what geopolitical dynamics have changed to get us to a point where war could conceivably break out soon. Discussed on the show: “By caving to Israel, Biden opens the door to war” (Responsible Statecraft) “CIA Chief: Iran Not Resuming Nuclear Weapons Program” (Antiwar.com) Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy. Parsi is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Follow him on Twitter @tparsi. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.1	bosses whatever's title is something like that over at the Quincy Institute for
0:59.7	Responsible Statecraft and of course their great website responsible statecraft and of course their great website responsible
1:03.4	statecraft.org where he has this very important piece from February the 21st.
1:09.5	By caving to Israel, Biden opens the door to war.
1:13.5	Eh, I might have thought that this subject was at least dormant for a little while, but no.
1:18.6	Welcome back to the show.
1:19.6	How you doing, Trita?
1:21.6	I'm doing great. Great to hear your voice again Scott.
1:25.0	Good. Very happy to have you back on the show and I really like this story because you
1:30.3	catch us up on some recent history and explain the proper context I think pretty
1:35.9	well here about the danger of war with Iran but I would note to start that there is a piece on
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