Why Iran War Would SPIRAL Out Of Control - Expert Trita Parsi Explains
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | War with Iran, looking increasingly inevitable, Donald Trump banging the war drums. |
| 0:05.5 | He's talked about a limited strike. That's just his statement that's just come out. |
| 0:11.1 | But this, according to the brilliant guess I'm going to speak to, will still lead to war. |
| 0:16.5 | There is no such thing as a limited encounter militarily in this particular context. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm always in a odd speak to Tritapasi, an Iranian Swedish writer, analyst, former president, |
| 0:26.1 | the National Iranian American Council, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible |
| 0:30.3 | Statecraft. Great to see you as ever. |
| 0:32.5 | Good to be with you again, I want. |
| 0:34.4 | So Donald Trump's openly talking about what he says is a limited strike. |
| 0:40.2 | The journalist who asked about this was removed from the press conference, I think, the event in the time. |
| 0:47.0 | What is that, could this just be then? |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, he's got the biggest buildup since the 2003 Iraq War, biggest military |
| 0:57.7 | buildup in the Middle East. But he's talking about a limited exchange. What do you make of that? |
| 1:04.7 | So what he is saying and what has been reported by the Wall Street Journal is that he's given |
| 1:10.3 | the Iranians an offer and he's |
| 1:12.3 | tired of the Yvanias not accepting it. So he's going to do a limited strike. And if they don't |
| 1:16.7 | accept the offer after that strike, then he's going to escalate the strike until they either |
| 1:21.7 | accept the offer or there is regime change in Iran. Now, that makes the question. What's the offer? Well, |
| 1:29.2 | what was presented by the U.S. side in this last round in Geneva was essentially a capitulation |
| 1:34.4 | offer. Evangians would have to give up their entire nuclear program. And in return, |
| 1:38.6 | they would not even get sanctions relief. They would get a pause or essentially no more new sanctions. And there's hardly any more sanctions |
| 1:46.0 | that can be imposed in Iran. But this is, of course, completely unacceptable to Iran because they |
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