{"id":313453,"date":"2026-02-23T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313453"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:46:33","slug":"extremely-dangerous-situation-trita-parsi-warns-u-s-iran-have-incentives-to-escalate-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/extremely-dangerous-situation-trita-parsi-warns-u-s-iran-have-incentives-to-escalate-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExtremely Dangerous Situation\u201d: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. &#038; Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>18 Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">As U.S. and Iranian officials continue negotiations over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, President Trump has ordered a buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers. &#8220;This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate,&#8221; says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. &#8220;Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Extremely Dangerous Situation&quot;: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. &amp; Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJfn5GThhgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 Feb 2026 &#8211; &#8220;This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate,&#8221; says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. &#8220;Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[742,88,767,70,481],"class_list":["post-313453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313454,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313453\/revisions\/313454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}