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- Trump’s objectives in the Iran War
- Iran’s conditions for a diplomatic settlement
- Israel’s influence on US war policy
- Iran War’s impact on American politics
- Congressional pressure and Trump’s options
- TRIPP and Iran’s security red lines
- Azerbaijan and Israel’s northern front
- Armenia’s risks in a wider conflict
Episode 602 | Recorded: November 10, 2026
#IranWar #TritaParsi #USIranRelations #IranDiplomacy #TrumpForeignPolicy #IsraelIran #TRIPP #SouthCaucasus
Show Notes
Summary
In this episode of Conversations on Groong, we speak with Trita Parsi about the Iran War and its implications for Armenia and the South Caucasus. We discuss Trump’s shifting approach to Iran, the prospects for diplomatic settlement, Israel’s influence on U.S. war policy, and how the conflict threatens Armenia’s security amid broader regional instability.Wrap-up
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Guests
Trita Parsi
Dr. Trita Parsi is Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute, where he advances a vision of U.S. foreign policy grounded in restraint and diplomacy. An influential Washington policy thinker, he has been named one of the capital’s 25 most influential voices on foreign policy by Washingtonian magazine each year since 2021.
A recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, Parsi is the author of four widely praised books on U.S. policy in the Middle East, including Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy (Yale, 2017). His work combines rigorous scholarship with direct experience in international institutions, including service at Sweden’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, where he handled Security Council matters on Iraq and Afghanistan.
Born in Iran and raised in Sweden, Parsi earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, studying under Francis Fukuyama and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He previously co-founded and led the National Iranian American Council and has taught at Georgetown, NYU, and Johns Hopkins.
Parsi’s insights appear regularly in The Washington Post, New York Times, and Financial Times, and he is a frequent guest on CNN, BBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera.
Hosts
Hovik Manucharyan
Hovik Manucharyan is an information security engineer who moved from Seattle to Armenia in 2022. He co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020 and has been a contributor to Groong News since the late 1990s.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Hovik Manucharyan on the ANN/Groong podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer or any other organization.
Asbed Bedrossian
Asbed Bedrossian is an IT professional, and for years oversaw the central IT enterprise infrastructure and services at USC. His decades of experience spanned across IT strategy, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data center operations, high performance computing, ITSM, ITPM, and more.
Asbed founded the Armenian News Network Groong circa 1989/1990, and co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020.
