2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Wrote Losing an Enemy & Treacherous Alliance. tritaparsi.substack.com
If Iran is behind these cyberattacks on US water systems, the message is clear.
It's a warning: If the US strikes critical infrastructure in Iran, including desalination plants and power grids, Iran will respond in kind through cyberattacks against critical infrastructure in the
For years, Israel was using 2,000lb American bombs to kill Gazan refugees in tents. Both the Biden and Trump administrations permitted it.
A precedent was set.
Now it appears the US is doing the same in Iran.
A 2000lb bomb was dropped on a family house in Qeshm, killing a taxi
I see three plausible explanations for this move:
1. This is a genuine attempt at preventing a likely US escalation in the making.
2. This is intended to give Trump a way out. Trump can continue to portray himself as tough and willing to take the fight, but the problem is with
Trita Parsi, the co-founder of the @QuincyInst, wrote that Mr. Zelensky could achieve a “strategic breakthrough” with the “dangerous gambit” of trying to persuade Washington that the two wars are intertwined.
