{"id":59828,"date":"2026-06-21T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59828"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:02:39","slug":"john-mearsheimer-and-trita-parsi-discuss-us-iran-talks-on-the-switzerland-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/21\/john-mearsheimer-and-trita-parsi-discuss-us-iran-talks-on-the-switzerland-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer and Trita Parsi Discuss US-Iran Talks on the Switzerland Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/tritaparsi.substack.com\/p\/john-mearsheimer-and-i-discuss-us\">Trita Parsi&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okSltilmp-o?si=IRjMKjXz9Q4eVBXf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tom Switzer had <span data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"mention-pnpTE1\" href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/users\/11197444-john-j-mearsheimer?utm_source=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;John J. Mearsheimer&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:11197444,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67feac20-c8d8-4519-b7d5-b16bf0717c51_1063x1063.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9ae51547-0731-4824-9459-f6e312cfddcc&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"MentionUser\">John J. Mearsheimer<\/a><\/span> and me on his podcast earlier this evening to discuss the latest in the US-Iran talks. John and I agree that the structure of the situation leaves neither side with any choice but to seek a deal. Trump is looking at a complete global economic disaster if he doesn\u2019t find an exit from this war. But there is also a positive incentive: Now that a transformative deal that can secure his legacy is within reach, Trump is also more willing to push back much more harshly against Israeli sabotage efforts. Indeed, I argue that JD Vance is taking the initial steps toward de-specializing the US-Israel relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from Trita Parsi&#8217;s Substack: Tom Switzer had John J. Mearsheimer and me on his podcast earlier this evening to discuss the latest in the US-Iran talks. John and I agree that the structure of the situation leaves neither side with any choice but to seek a deal. Trump is looking at a complete global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_social_image_id":59830,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1290],"class_list":["post-59828","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":"","_social_image_id":"59830","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59828","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59831,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59828\/revisions\/59831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}