{"id":58813,"date":"2026-04-19T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58813"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:19:41","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-more-of-the-same-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/john-mearsheimer-on-more-of-the-same-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on More of the Same on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/more-of-the-same-on-iran\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 13 April 2026, I was on \u201cDeep Dive\u201d with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about Iran. Although there was movement toward a genuine ceasefire after we spoke \u2014 as Israel stopped striking Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz was opened \u2014 that agreement quickly fell apart and Iran has closed the Strait again. Plus, Israel has made it clear it has no intention of stopping its attacks on Lebanon for any appreciable period of time. Thus, the analysis Danny and I provided on the 13th is just as relevant today \u2014 18 April \u2014 as it was five days ago. Simply put, it is as difficult as ever to see how President Trump can end this war, unless of course he is willing to concede defeat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEAi0O4x7Hc?si=8RQCGK2J1D0CZC01\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack:\u00a0 On 13 April 2026, I was on \u201cDeep Dive\u201d with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis talking about Iran. Although there was movement toward a genuine ceasefire after we spoke \u2014 as Israel stopped striking Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz was opened \u2014 that agreement quickly fell apart and Iran has [&hellip;]<\/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-58813","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\/58813","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=58813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58818,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions\/58818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}