Trita Parsi : Talks with Iran restarting and a good compromise is possible . Deal helps U.S. security and nonproliferation goals and makes Syria less hostile , Parsi says . Those are the stakes . Parsi : Past has been a cycle of increasing sanctions met with escalating nuclear program . He says it 's a deal or war , one that would be worse than Afghanistan , Iran , Iraq combined .
Trita Parsi : Talks with Iran restarting and a good compromise is possible . Deal helps U.S. security and nonproliferation goals and makes Syria less hostile , Parsi says . Parsi : Past has been a cycle of increasing sanctions met with escalating nuclear program . He says it 's a deal or war , one that would be worse than Afghanistan , Iran , Iraq combined .