It has been six months since United States and Israel launched their war on Iran. What has America achieved? What has its resilience revealed to the world about Iran? In these circumstances, can Operation Economic Outcast achieve what the war has not? Does it all depend on China’s response? Or whether the US is prepared to damage the global financial system? Finally, where do hopes for peace stand? Or could we slip back into war?In an interview for The Wire, Karan Thapar discusses these issues with Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute.