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Trita Parsi on why US air strikes strengthened Iran’s hand and failed to trigger a revolt

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ExclusiveTrita Parsi on why US air strikes strengthened Iran’s hand and failed to trigger a revolt

Iranian-born and Washington-based expert analyses Tehran’s leverage, China’s non-intervention strategy and shifting Persian Gulf alliances

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Trita Parsi is co-founder and executive vice-president of the Quincy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has written four books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. Born in Iran, Parsi moved to Sweden with his family as a child and then to the United States as an adult.

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