Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian-American Council and author of Treacherous Alliance, discusses the possibility that the new Iran NIE will give the Israeli government the opportunity to adopt a new foreign policy toward Iran, how the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon have benefited Iran and the Iranian leadership’s sanity.
Trita Parsi is the author of the forthcoming Treacherous Triangle: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007.) He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama (and Drs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, R. K. Ramazani, Jakub Grygiel, Charles Doran) at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 2006.
Dr. Parsi is one of the few people in the US – if not the only one – that has traveled both to Iran and Israel and interviewed top officials in these countries on the state of Israeli-Iranian relations. He has conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American officials in all three countries. He is fluent in Persian/Farsi.He has followed Middle East politics for more than a decade, both through work in the field, and through extensive experience on Capitol Hill and the United Nations. Dr. Parsi’s articles on Middle East affairs have been published in the Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Globalist, the Jerusalem Post, the Forward, BitterLemons and the Daily Star.
He is a frequent commentator on US-Iranian relations and Middle Eastern affairs, and has appeared on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN (Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, Anderson Cooper 360°), CNN International (Your World Today), Al Jazeera, C-Span, NPR, MSNBC, Voice of America and British Channel 4.
If I understood the news bulletin on this website of the National Iranian-American Council, last night Bush told some veterans group in Reno that he has instructed our soldiers to attack any Iranian soldiers found in Iraq, and that the US just arrested several Iranians at a hotel in Baghdad, FOR NO GOOD REASON. We are asked to quickly get ahold of Congress, although many members are not now available. Will it ever end? Not without regime change — IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH; tomorrow is not soon enough.
Yes. President Pelosi is just what the US needs…
It is the reasons for impeachment that are important, not who will immediately replace these two war criminals, PB. Not to impeach Cheney/Bush, is to comply, is to prove that the Democrats/Congress should also be impeached.
Researching further, it was Aug. 27 re Bush bellicose speech in Reno. Sorry.