On The Time of Monsters: Trita Parsi on how wider regional conflict in the Middle East is just starting.
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The Iran-Israel conflict in June was terrifying but brief: it lasted 12 days. But that war is not
over. Trita Parsi, vice president and cofounder of the Quincy Institute, has been warning that
both the United States and Israel are planning for another round, with their European allies
providing the groundwork. I spoke to Parsi about the likelihood of war, the rationale behind the
current sabre-rattling, and ways to stop the impending catastrophe.
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The Iran-Israel conflict in June was terrifying but brief: It lasted 12 days. But that war is not over. Trita Parsi, vice president and cofounder of the Quincy Institute, has been warning that both the United States and Israel are planning for another round, with their European allies providing the groundwork. I spoke to Parsi about the likelihood of war, the rationale behind the current saber-rattling, and ways to stop the impending catastrophe.
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Jeet HeerTwitterJeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.