A foreign-policy analyst pushing for peace describes how a campaign to revoke his green card and deport him backfired — framed as a win for anti-war voices, a setback for war hawks.

• Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute says an article called for his deportation, but the State Department quickly denied any plan to remove him.
• Public backlash and pushback from inside the Trump administration stopped the effort, though he expects more attempts to silence him.
• His group works to unite the anti-war left and anti-war right, which threatens pro-war forces in both parties.
• Younger Americans across the political spectrum increasingly share anti-war views, making that alliance harder to break up.
• He frames the pressure as coming from neoconservatives, war hawks, and the pro-Israel crowd who fear Americans uniting for peace.

Outlook: Parsi expects the campaign against him to continue and escalate, even if this round failed.