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Deep Dive: Five months into the United States' war on Iran, Donald Trump keeps insisting that a deal, or a decisive victory, is within reach. So why does neither ever arrive?

Trita Parsi's answer is blunt: the President is chasing a knockout blow that doesn't exist.

In this episode of The Briefing, Chris Spyrou speaks with Parsi, who is an expert on US-Iranian relations and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft - about who can really outlast whom and whether Trump has walked into a new forever war.

Trita’s last chat with Chris from March: Why the Iran war can’t end ‘soon’

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