All right, Alexander, we are here with the amazing Trita Parsi, joining us for the first time

on the Duran, and we're very happy and very honored to have Trita with us.

I'm sure everyone knows him and is following his work, but just in case there are some people,

Trita, who are not following your excellent work, where can people follow you?

Well, first of all, I'm delighted to be with you guys. I'm a huge, huge fan what you guys have done

and in broadening the public conversation at a moment when, unfortunately, from all different sides,

it was being contracted, is really amazing. So I'm tremendously grateful for you having me on,

but also for all the work that you guys have done.

People can find me increasingly on Substack,

which is at Trita Parsi,

as well as on Twitter at T-Parsi,

and on the Quincy Institute's website,

which is quincy-inST.org.

I will have all those links in the description box down below,

and they will also be as a pin comment as well.

So, Alexander, Trita, let's begin.

Indeed, let's begin. And since we only have Trita for a limited amount of time, I'm going to go straight in, though I will quickly say that I have been following Treater's work and writing

continuously and, well, it has massively informed me about this crisis, the crisis we are in

at the moment between the United States and Iran. And yesterday we saw what looked to many

people like a resumption off the wall.

We had a situation where the United States was talking again about escorting or maybe not escorting,

guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz, not at all clear what that means.

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