“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Trita Parsi

Trita Parsi is the co-founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council, a non-profit educational organization.

Articles by Trita Parsi

This week’s front page editor

Rosemary Bechler is the mainsite editor of openDemocracy.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

The US and Iran on a dead end path to war?

Trita Parsi 24 September 2012

Unless strong political leadership and decisive diplomatic efforts are quickly shown on all sides, war between the US and Iran will become increasingly probable due to the elimination of all other policy options.

The Iran-Israel cold war

Trita Parsi 25 September 2007

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 United States's double-vision in Iran

Trita Parsi 9 May 2006

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 conservative triumph

Trita Parsi, Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Nader Entessar, Hamid Zanganeh, Bahram Rajaee, Bahman Kalbasi, and Abbas Milani 28 June 2005

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.