Trita Parsi is researching for a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is the co-founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council, a non-profit educational organisation promoting Iranian-American participation in American civic life. He writes in a personal capacity.

Recent articles

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s new president, has called for the extinction of Israel. But the Islamic Republic and the Jewish state were not always enemies, explains Trita Parsi.

(This article was first published on 28 October 2005)

The tension between the Bush administration’s two objectives in Iran – non-proliferation and regime change – makes it likely that neither will be met, says Trita Parsi.

Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.