John Mearsheimer on Gloom and Doom in Iran

by | Sep 28, 2026 | News | 2 comments

Reprinted from John’s Substack: 

On 24 September 2026, I was on “The Chris Hedges Report,” where I talked to Chris at length about why the Trump administration has no winning strategy in Iran. It certainly has no military option, which is why it is limiting itself to putting great pressure on Iran’s economy with a blockade coupled with Secretary of the Treasury Bessent’s strategy of cutting the Iranian economy off from the rest of the world. But that strategy won’t work either. And all the while, the US is pushing the international economy closer and closer to the brink.

John J. Mearsheimer, PhD, is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. More recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing the article The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was subsequently published as a book.

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