Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States and, most recently, A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy With Iran, which was published in January by Yale.
Obama’s abandonment of patient diplomacy—combined with Israel’s bellicose demands—has pushed us dangerously close to conflict.
To change Iran's behavior, we must first change our own.


