7/25/25 Trita Parsi on how Israel’s War with Iran Made Everything Worse

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Trita Parsi joins the show to discuss the fallout and likely near-term consequences of the Israeli-US air war on Iran. Parsi explains that the Iranians are now a lot more likely to make a serious go at building a nuclear bomb and, thanks to Netanyahu and Trump, it will now be a lot harder to stop them. Discussed on the show: Iran’s Nuke Program is Intact w/ MIT Prof Ted Postol & Lt Col Daniel Davis 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: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated; Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; 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, you, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:11.6	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of anti-war.com,
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0:37.5	Okay, guys, on the line, I've got the great treat of Parsi.
0:41.1	Of course, he formerly was at the National Iranian American Council, and he is the co-founder
0:45.6	of the Quincy Institute and writes regularly, of course, at responsible stakecraft.com,
0:51.8	which is their great website full of articles. And all it is is guys from
0:57.2	the American conservative and Jim Loeb's blog, plus their best friends, I guess. But man, it's all
1:02.3	really great foreign policy stuff there at Responsible Statecraft. And of course, the wonderful
1:08.0	and very close friend of me in the show, Kelly Vlahos, is editor over there,
1:12.7	and it's just great. But welcome back. Oh, and I didn't say, but I needed to. He wrote
1:17.4	Tretcherous Alliance, also some other books, but Tretcherous Alliance is such a huge and important
1:21.3	book, and I really hope you'll all read. It's the whole way better history than enough already
1:25.9	of what happened over there between Israel, Iraq, and Iran
1:29.4	over all those years and all of that. And he's a big part of why I know so much. Welcome back to the show.
1:34.6	How you doing? Thanks so much for having me against God. And happy April Glasby Day. You can attack
1:40.6	anybody you want. All right, good.
1:44.8	I got a little chuckle there.
1:46.9	Yeah, it's July 25th, the day that America told Iraq, go ahead and invade Kuwait if you feel like it.
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