They Want to DESTROY Iran - Owen Jones with Trita Parsi

Click on Owen Jones,: Now Donald Trump's director of his national terrorism center has resigned. this is Joe Kent. An excoriating attack on the administration claiming that Israel had the Israel lobby had bounced the US into this war and said that Iran posed no threat in terms of terrorism to the US and Israel and meanwhile is is picking off top Iranian officials at the top of the regime. What does this all mean? No better person to speak to than the always brilliant Triti Parsi who's an Iranian American analyst. He's has lots of caps but for example co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State crafted brilliant work. How you doing well? How are you? Triti Parsi: Yeah. Well, Owen Jones: I hope you're doing as well as possible. You're doing brilliant stuff in very difficult times. Let's just start with Joe Kent. So, Joe Kent not a Pinkco lefty. Let's just put it mildly. He's a former US soldier. He referred to that. His wife also died in combat which is relevant. What do you make of the significance of his resignation?

Triti Parsi: This is extremely significant because it is not an isolated incident. Not in the sense that you have a lot of other people resigning right now, but that might happen. But because it's reflective of a much larger cohort of people inside of the Trump administration that are very much against this war. They're extremely dismayed that Trump went along. They have many of them been pushed out of the conversation. Trump is making these decisions increasingly with a smaller circle of people in government and a larger circle of pro-Israeli voices and Israeli government officials rather than actually US officials. Someone of that seniority, someone with that credibility, I mean 11 combat tours, wife lost to an al-Qaeda or ISIS attack in in in uh Syria. So, I mean, the guy has tremendous credibility and Trump, you know, was trying to downplay him, say that he's weak, etc. He's the one who, you know, put him in the place that he is, at the end of the day. I think it's reflective of a tremendous amount of dismay and anger. And I think it's worth pointing out that you never had any resignation of this level this early…..