Israel–Iran Next Moves: Trita Parsi on What’s Coming

In this exclusive conversation, Andy Millette sits down with Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, to break down the fast-evolving Israel–Iran conflict and the U.S. response shaping it behind the scenes. Parsi explains how Israel’s latest operation pursued three major objectives — decapitation of Iran’s leadership, crippling missile capacity, and drawing the United States deeper into confrontation — and why, in his words, “only one worked.” He describes Iran’s remarkable ability to reconstitute its leadership structure in under 18 hours, the evidence that Iranian missiles breached Israel’s layered defense systems, and the dangerous…