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As sentiment acts as a key cue in triplet extraction, its role is often overlooked, thereby limiting extraction performance. This paper proposes a novel framework, duality-driven aspect sentiment triplet extraction with a large language model and iterative reinforcement, which integrates duality-driven with a large language model for the aspect sentiment triplet task. This study employs a duality-driven strategy based on symmetry to extract aspect-based sentiment triplets, fully taking into account sentiment polarity during the interaction between aspects and opinions. Moreover, this study devises a two-view prompt template for prior knowledge fusion based on large language models and employs confidence cycle iteration strategies to alleviate cascading errors. Extensive experiments show that the framework outperforms the previous state-of-the-art model. 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