{"id":156786,"date":"2026-08-30T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156786"},"modified":"2026-08-30T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:00:06","slug":"trita-parsi-on-why-us-air-strikes-strengthened-irans-hand-and-failed-to-trigger-a-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156786","title":{"rendered":"Trita Parsi on why US air strikes strengthened Iran\u2019s hand and failed to trigger a revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTrita 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.<br \/>\nThis interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3365735\/trita-parsi-why-us-air-strikes-strengthened-irans-hand-and-failed-trigger-revolt?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTrita 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}