Trita Parsi on why US air strikes strengthened Iran’s hand and failed to trigger a revolt
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- Trita Parsi argues that US air strikes strengthened Iran’s position rather than triggering a popular revolt.
- The source is a South China Morning Post interview with Parsi, a co-founder and executive vice-president of the Quincy Institute and an expert on US-Iranian relations.
Trita Parsi argues that US air strikes strengthened Iran’s hand and failed to provoke a revolt.
Parsi is co-founder and executive vice-president of the Washington-based Quincy Institute. He specializes in US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy and Middle East geopolitics, and has written four books on US foreign policy in the region.
Born in Iran, Parsi moved to Sweden as a child and later to the United States. The interview first appeared in SCMP Plus.
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