3/24/23 Trita Parsi: America Is Not the Peacemaker in the Middle East

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🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Scott talks with Trita Parsi about an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times on the Saudi-Iranian agreement to reestablish diplomatic ties. Although the agreement does not mark an end to the rivalry between the two governments, it did establish a way to manage that rivalry with words. Also, the talks were brokered by the Chinese government. Parsi explains why this is a big deal. They also talk about the news that the Saudis agreed to resume ties with Syria in talks brokered by Russia. Discussed on the show: “The U.S. Is Not an Indispensable Peacemaker” (New York Times) “Saudi Arabia, Syria Close to Resuming Ties in Russia-Brokered Talks” (Wall Street Journal) 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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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. and they let him write one in the New York Times. I didn't like that. The US is not an indispensable peacemaker. Oh, sad.
0:57.0	Welcome back to the show, Trita, how are you?
0:59.0	Good, good to be back.
1:01.0	Very happy to have you here.
1:03.4	And the occasion, of course, is the peace deal.
1:08.8	Did you ever think that you and me
1:10.1	were going to have this conversation anytime
1:12.3	in the reasonable term, you know, medium future kind of thing here.
1:16.1	The new peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran,
1:20.8	brokered by China over America's helmet and very much against their wishes.
1:28.1	So tell me, what's it all mean?
1:32.3	It's a significant development because at the end of the day certainly Iran-S Saudi
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