Interview: Trump Is Increasingly Desperate

Trita Parsi says the Americans are already discussing the option of using nuclear weapons on Iran.

He discusses the "increasing desperation of U.S. strategy; Iran’s long-term economic control over the Strait of Hormuz; growing hawkishness & the dangerous possibility of nuclear warfare."

Trita Parsi is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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“He Is Increasingly Desperate”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Expletive-Laced Threats Against Iran

We get the latest analysis on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Parsi discusses the increasing “desperation” of U.S. strategy, Iran’s long-term economic control over the Strait of Hormuz and growing “hawkishness,” and the dangerous possibility of nuclear warfare.

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I watched it this morning, too. This quote stuck with me:

"If Trump escalates, then those [oil production] will likely be targeted. And then you don’t only have a bottleneck problem, you also have a production problem. The bottleneck problem can be resolved relatively quickly... But if you have a production problem, then that means that the production will not go up for quite some time, and that will create a much longer-term problem on the oil markets."