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A war without a map is a war that makes its own weather. We sat down with Trita Parsi to unpack how a cascade of bad assumptions, breathless narratives, and wishful thinking turned a coercive gambit into an open-ended conflict with Iran.

The vast majority [of Iranians] I do believe want to see a different regime but I don’t think the vast majority want to see a change in regime at any cost including invasion, intervention or war or civil war.