Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.

We are privileged today to be joined by Trita Parcy. He is the co-founder, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of a number of books on U.S.-Iranian relations, including treacherous alliance,

the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, as well as losing an enemy,

Obama, Iran, and the triumph of diplomacy.

Trita Parsi, thank you so much for joining us of current affairs today.

Let me start by asking you, if you could elaborate a little bit on the aspects of this war that are

sanitized or occluded in US media.

That is to say, the effects that this war is having on ordinary Iranians on the ground.

There is so much that is being sanitized when it comes to what the mainstream media is

covering.

And it's not just the impact on the ground, but it's also everything that happened before

the war and how the war got started.

But if we want to focus just on what's happening to the people, we're seeing clearly that there is a tremendous amount of civilian casualties.

I don't believe we have a clear assessment at this point.

Not a lot of information is getting out of Iran compared to during the 12-day war.

And we have seen a shift in which the US is moving towards,

and has already started to attack what clearly are civilian sites.

These are violations of the Geneva Convention's Article 54 or 56 Protocol 1.

For instance, the targeting of desalination plant in Keshe Island,

the targeting of the oil refineries in Tehran by the Israelis,

last night's attack by the United States on the power grid.

All of these things are affecting the civilian population.

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