{"id":57780,"date":"2026-02-27T04:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57780"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:26:04","slug":"talking-iran-with-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/talking-iran-with-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: Talking Iran With The Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/talking-iran-with-the-judge\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 24 February 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with the Judge about the various misadventures the US is involved in around the globe. Of course, we focused mainly on Iran, where one can only hope President Trump has the good sense not to pull the trigger.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvKzn-2JHr8?si=_C2UtwM5l4AyROaz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 24 February 2026, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d talking with the Judge about the various misadventures the US is involved in around the globe. Of course, we focused mainly on Iran, where one can only hope President Trump has the good sense not to pull the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-57780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57786,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57780\/revisions\/57786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}