all right let's go now to trita parsi he's the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. he's an authority in america on us it really in relation to trade it's good to have you on the program again i know you tweeted today that the greater the prospects for a breakthrough in vienna with those talks the more aggressively israel will try to start a war was the blackout at the natanz nuclear facility was it an attempt by israel to provoke a war. i think it was primarily an attempt to provoke a collapse of the talks we have seen this pattern extensively in the past that the now is a very wary not about the talks failing but about the talks succeeding and he has intervened on numerous occasions in the past with assassinations and other things in order to try to do something that would cause the iranians to lash out and the consequences of their lash out will either lead to a collapse of the talks or could escalate into a military confrontation now with the now as in not being washington for quite some time to use military force against iran so th

relations in america trita parsi is executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft he joins me tonight from washington trade it's good to have you back on the day the u.s. the u.s. state department just released a statement calling these indirect talks the 1st a healthy exercise a healthy exercise in what. it's a healthy exercise in the fullness see and the patience that is required to be able to put the jaycee back together it's going to be a very tough journey it's not going to be easy for either side some very valuable time was lost in the 1st 2 months of this year but at least now there is some sort of a process in the making it's not a perfect process it would be much better if the 2 sides talk directly to each other but that appears not like you to have it on till there is 1st a plan on how to make sure that the united states can come back into full compliance with the deal as well as the. new former us president donald trump torpedoed the deal or tried to when he withdrew the us from it back in 2018 is it safe to say that the ghost of the trump ye

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well trita parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. his work focuses on the u.s. iranian relations iranian foreign politics and the geopolitics of the middle east and he's written a book entitled losing an enemy obama iran and the triumph of diplomacy it focuses on the strategy of the obama administration and toward iran's nuclear program and it traces the course of the complex negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal and the piracy it joins me tonight on the day a very warm welcome to you so iran wants to talk or they are not directly with the united states what is going to be the role of europe and other global partners in making this happen. well the europeans will play a very important role and making sure that the right type of choreography is found that have both sides can come back fully into the deal the u.s. is outside of the deal the iranians are inst side of the 0 but have reduced their obligations and that needs to be reversed as well mindful of the fact that the iranians are taking the position tha

vast thought all right let's go now to trita parsi he is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible stay craft in washington d.c. he's an authority in america on u.s. iranian relations attorney it's good to have you on the program again i know you tweeted today that the greater the prospects for a breakthrough in vienna with those talks the more aggressively israel will try to start a war was the blackout at the natanz nuclear facility was it an attempt by israel to provoke a war. i think it was trying merely an attempt to provoke a collapse of the talks we have seen this pattern extensively in the past and now is very wary not about the talks failing but about the talks succeeding and he has intervened on numerous occasions in the past with assassinations and other things in order to try to do something that would cause the iranians to lash out and the consequences of their lash out will either lead to a collapse of the talks or could escalate into a military confrontation now with the now as in not being washington for quite some time to use military force against

vast thought all right let's go now to trita parsi he is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. he's an authority in america on u.s. iranian relations or trade it's good to have you on the program again i know you tweeted today that the greed of the prospects for a breakthrough in vienna with those talks the more aggressively israel will try to start over was the blackout at the natanz nuclear facility was it an attempt by israel to provoke a war. i think it was primarily an attempt to provoke a collapse of the talks we have seen this pattern extensively in the past that the now is a very wary not about the talks failing but about the talks succeeding and he has intervened on numerous occasions in the past with assassinations and other things in order to try to do something that would cause the iranians to lash out and the consequences of their lash out will either lead to a collapse of the talks or could escalate into a military confrontation now with the now as in not being washington for quite some time to use military force agai

well trita parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. his work focuses on the u.s. iranian relations iranian foreign politics and the geopolitics of the middle east and he's written a book entitled losing an enemy obama iran and the triumph of diplomacy it focuses on the strategy of the obama administration and toward iran's nuclear program and it traces the course of the complex negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal and the parsi joins me tonight on the day a very warm welcome to you so iran wants to talk or not directly with the united states what is going to be the role of europe and other global partners in making this happen. well the europeans will play a very important role and making sure that the right type of choreography is found that have both sides can come back fully into the deal the u.s. is outside of the deal the iranians are inst side of the 0 but have reduced their obligations and that needs to be reversed as well mindful of the fact that the iranians are taking the position that if they sta

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all right let's go now to try to parse he is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. he's an authority in america on us radian relations a trade it's good to have you on the program again i know you tweeted today that the greed of the prospects for a breakthrough in vienna with those talks the more aggressively israel will try to start a war was the blackout you know tons nuclear facility was it an attempt by israel to provoke a war. i think it was primarily an attempt to provoke a collapse of the talks we have seen this pattern extensively in the past and now is a very wary not about the talks failing but about the talks succeeding and he has intervened on numerous occasions in the past with assassinations and other things in order to try to do something that would cause the iranians to lash out and the consequences of their lash out will either lead to a collapse of the talks or could escalate into a military confrontation now that the now as in not being washington for quite some time to use military force against iran so

well trita parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington d.c. his work focuses on the u.s. iranian relations iranian foreign politics and the geopolitics of the middle east and he's written a book entitled losing an enemy obama iran and the triumph of diplomacy it focuses on the strategy of the obama administration and toward iran's nuclear program and it traces the course of the complex negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal and the parsee it joins me tonight on the day a very warm welcome to you so iran wants to talk or not directly with the united states what is going to be the role of europe and other global partners in making this happen. well the europeans will play a very important role and making sure that the right type of choreography is found that have both sides can come back fully into the deal the u.s. is outside of the deal the iranians are inst side of the 0 but have reduced their obligations and that needs to be reversed as well mindful of the fact that the iranians are taking the position that if they

fellow for the middle east programme at the sink tank —— east programme at the think tank the quincy institutehow damaging this extraordinary family feud is. this is really unprecedented and part of why we saw other arab monarchies around the region, as well as the us, very quickly expressing support, which is interesting because previously, especially under president trump, jordan had been somewhat sidelined especially as the uae signed the abraham accords, and especially president trump's efforts to shut down the two state solution. king abdullah was somewhat frustrated and there was also the potential effort by the saudis to possibly take over control of the holy sites injerusalem. there've been of ongoing tension injordan feeling somewhat dissatisfied by the way it was treated by the us and its neighbours, so it is interesting now to see the extent to which support is coming in from all its neighbours and the us because the local monarchs know that if something were to happen to king abdullah, that could potentially be similar to the situation we saw in tunisia ten years ago with the fall

rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement was a pos is executive vice president at the quincy institute in washington d.c. he thinks minor military confrontations will have little impact on the negotiations in vienna unfortunate this is a pattern that we have seen in the past when tensions between the united states and iran have heightened things like this have occurred what the real risk here is that because of a lack of communications channels between the united states and iran an incident like this could escalate out of control precisely because it's who sides are not talking but we've also seen a pattern in which this tends to take place as the 2 sides are getting closer towards some form of an agreement and though progress has been slow it does appear as if the returns today c.p.a. is within reach within the next couple of weeks as a result of the discussions taking place in vienna but what i think we have seen so far is that. talks in vienna seem to be quite well insulated from the whole set of different incidents not only this but we also seen how these rallies conducted an attack i

dr annelle sheline is a research fellow in the middle east program at the quincy institute think tanks in washington. thank you very much coming on the programme.— the programme. thanks for havinu the programme. thanks for having me- _ the programme. thanks for having me. we _ the programme. thanks for having me. we are - the programme. thanks for having me. we are seeing i the programme. thanks for i having me. we are seeing this extraordinary _ having me. we are seeing this i extraordinary family feud being played out in public. how damaging do you think this is? this is really unprecedented and part of why we saw other arab monarchies around the region, as well as the us, very quickly expressing support, which is interesting because previously, especially under president trump, jordan had been somewhat sidelined especially as the uae signed the abraham accords, and especially president trump's efforts to shut down the two state solution. king abdullah was somewhat frustrated and there was also the potential effort by the saudis to possibly take over control of the holy sites injeru

about sanctions and an over going to talk about that more, 1 thing i want to highlight is that quincy institute recently sent a letter with 54 organizations to president biden to make public the result of a review that's currently ongoing in terms of sanctions and their impact on covid recovery. this letter highlights the fact that stigmatized general humanitarian activities like north korea and iran. it made it much more bureaucratic and difficult for delivery of humanitarian system in these countries but i think washington, tokyo and seoul can conduct a similar assessment to see what restrictions are in place with respect to delivering north korea. figuring out how to get more vaccines come to countries in the region and other kinds of humanitarian cooperation that would certainly be low hanging. certainly within the capabilities of the 3 economies. and could generate very good will. among the countries but of course north koreans difficult case it has refused vaccines in certain countries and has made it very difficult to ascertain the level of covid pandemic spread and the country. so we kn

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as well he's a senior analyst at the quincy institute for responsible statecraft that's a think tank working on new foreign policy via diplomatic engagements and military restraint thanks for speaking to us what's your reaction to what the president had to say. well i think his message to the american peoples your emotional is your white house correspondent. and it's going to be very welcome when the american people are growing tired of this war they want to go out speaking with retired military officers to those still serving this is going to be this is going to be very welcome if not if not over do this could have been done 10 years ago and should have been done 10 years ago i thought it was an excellent statement and very convincing here's the thing though the secretary of state earlier on said that we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve but some people would say you know that's a statement that raises many questions because what goals have been achieved in afghanistan and especially when the president from when a front from one biden was vice president back and try

from watching "amistad" you would get the sense that everyone is like john quincy adams and finds the institution abhorrent. perhaps the most telling observation we can pull from the century worth of movie making is that of all the anti-slavery films that we saw produced between 1995 and 2016 only two of them "vampire hunter" and "free state of jones" have a plot 245 that singles out the confederacy as an attempt to preserve the institution of slavery. to be clear, i don't mean to say that we should hold films that depict the 1830s to 50s accountable for addressing something like the confederacy that does not yet exist. it would make no sense to be lamenting cessation, but what i am saying is that we must remember that hollywood is a business. a business intent on making money. and one very adept at reading the proverbial room and catering to the wants and needs of the paying audience. so based on the last three decades of film making, it's clear to us that hollywood believes americans are willing to concede the evils of slavery and we've become increasingly willing to pay to see a slew of anti-s

enough work and suggest that everybody knows the john quincy is the kind of rising star city will blame him for saying that les to become president institutead rented terry rules we can pass the torch on his own son. which was not fair but you can see that would be useful talking point for the republicans. >> the argument about why is it necessary or is it a real influence because in the democracy because it doesn't well it is hard to not hard by the argument because the bush family, the father was a senator of h&w. and that his son was the president and then his son was the president. three generations of very influential bushes plus the fact that jeb bush got close or at least look like he was going to get close to being president as well in the kennedy family, everybody just assumed, no one will run against a kennedy. but once jeff k got killed than of course there was a roosevelt that was not quite the same but an uncle and a nephew or something like that. so we have quite a few examples of families that eventually get the democratic voters to feel they have a right to that office in some way. >> it is interesting. i think adams might

quincy goldberg. here is a reminder about court backing. >> initial instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional change suchrms of court-packing think long and hard before they embody those changes in law. if the public sees judges as politicians in robe expects incompetence in court and the rule of law itself can only diminish. >> nine seems to be a good number. it's been that way for a long time. i think that was a bad idea when president franklin delano roosevelt tried to a pack the court. pete: it didn't work then. will it work now? >> from what we understand from the legislation, doctor, it would happen right away four more. >> this is immediate dump. like a hostile takeover of the court. so, the question i think that really we have to look at is with the loss of control of the base of the democratic party. this is a crisis of leadership. frankly, it's a failure of leadership by president biden. he was right back in 1983. this was a terrible, terrible idea just to take over the court. but he has been really equivocating, trying to play to the far left, and this is the result. so this is the test of pri

this predicted an uproar and everybody knows john quincy is a rising star so people blame him for saying adams wants to become president and institute hereditary rule so he can pass the torch down to his own son which wasn't fair but he thought that would be a useful talking point for the republicans. >> 'sargument about whyit's necessary, is it real influence in this democracy ? because it's not hard to buy the argument because the bush family did it. the father was a senator of hew and then his son was president and his son. three generations of very influential bushes plus the fact that jeb bush got close or at least looked like he was going to getclose to being president the kennedy family , just everybody assumed no one can one run against one of the kennedys for a while. then of course there was the roosevelt, thatwasn't quite the same . so we have quite a few examples of families that eventually get the democratic voters to feel that they have a right to that office in some way. >> it is interesting and i think adams might point to it as evidence for what he was suggesting which is that people want something to look up to. so