Iran “expert” Trita Parsi and Democrats blame Trump for “escalating the situation” with Iran

Iran analyst Trita Parsi reacted this way to the U.S. airstrike that killed the leader of the Iranian regime’s elite Quds Force, Major General Qassem Soleimani:

The Iran deal bought time and supplied money for Iran, allowing it to expand its jihadi proxies globally and secretly develop its nuclear weapons while building “missiles and other munitions.” So far, everything that Trump has done was necessary to try to reverse or control the disasters the Obama Administration created. In fact, Obama “liked Soleimani” and admired his work, as he reportedly told a group of Arab officials.

But Trita Parsi, co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Washington think tank known as the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, knows all of this and advances the cause of the regime. The touted analyst Parsi actually wants everyone to believe the absurdity that “Iran’s proxy wars are a figment of America’s imagination.” It is significant that George Soros funded the “Quincy Institute,” along with (surprisingly) the Koch brothers. Parsi was also founder of the “Iran Lobby front group,” the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Given all this, one can see the real purpose of the Institute.

Jihad Watch has offered much information about the NIAC HERE, and Tablet Magazine explains how Trita Parsi and the NIAC “used the White House to advance Iran’s agenda”:

Kenneth R. Timmerman, Executive Director for the Foundation of Democracy in Iran, once described Trita Parsi as “The Mullahs’ Voice” and Iran’s “unofficial spokesman in Washington, who can talk circles around their official ambassadors.”

In May, Parsi was even invited to Canada to give testimony at a Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Canadian Parliament, but a massive “pressure campaign by pro-sanctions activists and lobby groups, including organizations affiliated with Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)” led to the cancellation of Parsi’s appearance by Liberal Member of Parliament Anita Vandenbeld, the Chair of the Subcommittee.

The U.S. airstrike that killed Soleimani is sure to draw out the most insidious anti-democracy forces from within America, who continue to strengthen her worst enemies. As expected, Democrat Presidential candidates are out in full force to accuse Trump of leaving America “on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East.” One could not realistically expect them to put the blame where it’s due: on the Obama Administration and on their own continued appeasement strategies that just don’t work with jihadists, let alone with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Parsi went on to state that “Trump’s actions in Iran have sparked international condemnation.” Indeed they have, but the condemnations are coming from the same appeasers, globalists and wicked and/or inept leaders who are protected and secured with taxpayer money from the very same dangers into which they put their own populations. Jihadists everywhere are watching with glee as Democrats and other Western appeasers continue to assist them to weaken America from within. The more emboldened they become, the more likely they are to attack from any and all sides.

“Analyst: ‘Everything the Trump administration has done has escalated Iran situation,'” The Hill, January 3, 2020:

Iran analyst Trita Parsi reacted to the U.S. airstrike that resulted in the death of one of Iran’s most powerful generals during an interview with Hill.TV on Friday.

Parisi argued that “everything the Trump administration has done has escalated the situation,” tracing it back to President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.

Under the Obama-era deal, Iran had agreed to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

“The moment when it all started is when Trump pulled out of this, so if we’re actually looking for deterrence we know how that would work,” Parisi said. “It would mean proper diplomacy, trying to figure out how you can find some sort of a way of coexisting with elements that you may not like in any way, shape or form.”

Parsi is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank with a focus on shifting U.S. foreign policy away “from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace.”

His comments come as lawmakers on Capitol Hill still reel from the news surrounding a targeted U.S. strike in Iraq that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani among others. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said a day after the attack that the action was not authorized and Congress was not consulted on the decision.

The Pentagon, meanwhile, has described the U.S. drone attack at Baghdad International Airport as a “defensive action,” but Parsi pushed back against this notion in his interview with Hill.TV….