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2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.

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Trita Parsi is an Iranian-born Swedish writer and activist, co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council. .. more

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 9h
Told @esaagar and @krystalball:

"If Trump really does not want war [with Iran], then he should not accept the premise of the Israeli position, because the Israeli premise is designed to get the US into war with Iran."

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US RUSHES Mil Equipment To Iran As Last Ditch Diplomacy Breaks Out
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d
Told @aje that we don't know the validity of Iran's belief that it can inflict such damage on the US that a small war can lead to Trump dropping his maximalist positions.

Hopefully, we will never need to find out if Tehran simply picks up the phone and calls Trump directly.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d
The primary audience for Iran's warnings is Trump himself - Tehran is trying to dispel Trump's sense that Iran is on the brink. Some in Tehran believe a small confrontation may be necessary to make Trump drop his maximalist demands and get him to negotiate more realistically.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d
Direct talks between Iranian officials and Trump himself may appear completely unrealistic, but some of the main turning points in the US-Iran drama were caused by moves that most believe were completely impossible. I don't see what the Iranian shave tolose by trying this card.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 2d
Told @AJEnglish that the most effective way to walk away from the precipice of war is for Tehran to talk directly to Trump - not to negotiate, but to defuse tensions and broaden the parameters for the negotiations.