8/10/23 Trita Parsi: Biden has Escalated Trump’s Terrible Iran Policy

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

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Scott is joined by Trita Parsi to talk about Iran. They go over developments with U.S-Israeli relations and the new American troop deployments, both of which Parsi says make war with Iran more likely. They finish with a quick look at the recent U.S-Iran prisoner deal. Discussed on the show: “By caving to Israel, Biden opens the door to war” (Responsible Statecraft) “With Marines on Persian Gulf vessels, is Biden risking war with Iran?” (Responsible Statecraft) 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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0:44.0	All right you guys on the line I got Treida Parsi and he was at the National
0:50.0	Iranian American Council and then he helped co-found the Quincy Institute for Responsible State
0:56.3	Craft, and of course he writes there at Responsible State Craft, but you can also find them
0:59.8	in all kinds of mainstream things too.
1:02.2	And of course the subject is Iran and the danger of war.
1:07.2	Welcome back to the show, how you doing Trina?
1:09.5	Good to be back.
1:11.6	Everybody's so busy keeping track of the war in Eastern Europe and the threat of war in East Asia and
1:19.6	jeez they said we're pivoting out of the Middle East there and yet as long as there's Israel there's problems with Iran, huh?
1:30.0	Well in this specific case, I don't know if it's just Israel, but obviously with what the administration is trying to do, in my view, I cannot quite wrap my head around why they are putting so much effort into a normalization between
1:46.1	Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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