Trita Parsi is founder and President of the National Iranian American Council. He is the author of several books, including Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, for which he was Silver Medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award, given by the Council on Foreign Relations, A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, and Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy. He has also served as an adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University.
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