Many thanks to Harry Kreisler, executive producer and moderator of “Conversations with History.” Produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, these interviews were conceived by Kreisler as a way to “…capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times…”

Trita Parsi, author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, was Kreisler’s most recent guest. You can also listen to a Yale Press Podcast with the author.

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From YouTube:
“Iran, Israel, and the United States”
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, for a discussion of the struggle for power in the Middle East. Drawing on the perspective of the Realist School of International Relations Theory, he focuses on the region’s dominant powers–Israel and Iran–and examines the evolution of their relations with each other and with the United States, the world’s only superpower.