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A Voice of Reason on Iran
By maudeaster on 2012-10-18 13:44:36
Save the date - November 19th - when Trita Parsi will be speaking in the Capital District — a man who truly brings a voice
of reason to the debate on the US & Iran. The NYS Writer’s Institute will host him for an 8 PM talk at SUNY, Campus
Center 375, and at 4 PM Siena College will host him at Roger Bacon Hall 202. Parsi is an amazing person. He is
interviewed about Iran by media with very diverse perspectives — from CNN to the Wall Street Journal, from BBC to
Democracy Now. He is a sought after policy expert because his research -- on US-Iran relations, Iranian foreign policy and
the geopolitics of the Middle East -- has been so thorough and because his insights are so thoughtful.
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Parsi is the author of Zreacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press
2007), for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-
makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign
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Relations. In A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (Yale University
Press), released earlier this year, Parsi uncovers the previously unknown story of American and Iranian negotiations during
Obama's early years as president, the calculations behind the 2 nations' dealings, and the real reasons for their current
stalemate. Parsi is a vocal proponent of dialogue and engagement between the US and Iran, which he argues would
enhance our national security by helping to stabilize the Middle East and bolstering the moderates in Iran.
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Parsi was born in Iran, but moved with his family at the age of four to Sweden in order to escape
political repression in Iran. His father was an outspoken academic and non-Muslim who was jailed by the Shah and then by
the Ayatollah. He moved to the United States as an adult and studied foreign policy at Johns Hopkins’ School for Advanced
International Studies where he received his Ph.D. He is president of the National Iranian American Council which he
founded to provide a non-partisan, non-profit organization through which Iranian-Americans could participate in American
civic life. Parsi has followed Middle East politics through work in the field and extensive experience on Capitol Hill and at
the United Nations. He is frequently consulted by Western and Asian governments on foreign policy matters. Parsi has
worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN, where he served in the Security Council, handling the affairs of
Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan and Western Sahara, and in the General Assembly's Third Committee, addressing human rights
in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq. Parsi is the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World
Order. For more on Parsi see http://www.tritaparsi.com/ . Two weeks ago, former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
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warned that a US or Israeli attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences, would not wipe out
Iran’s nuclear capability and would make a nuclear armed Iran inevitable. “The results of an American or Israeli strike could
in my view prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world,” Gates said.
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/10/exdefense-chief-says-hit-iran-would-be-disastrous. I’m hoping the end of the election
season will replace the current, hyped anti-Iran rhetoric and allow policy makers to hear Gates’ warning. Women Against
War and the Fellowship of Reconciliation are bringing Trita Parsi to the Capital District so that we can all become clear
advocates for the positive steps the US can take moving forward.
