Trita Parsi is one of the leading experts on U.S.–Iran relations and the co-founder of theQuincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft, a think tank formed to move the U.S. away from constant aggression and toward the pursuit of international peace. The Iranian-born analyst joinedCurrent Affairs for the second time this year to discuss the dismal state of peace negotiations with Iran—and why, he says, American wars so often turn endless: “Because the political courage to end them does not exist, and it takes less political courage to just continue them and lie to the American people that victory is around the corner.”

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