{"id":315306,"date":"2026-04-27T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=315306"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:34:56","slug":"is-there-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-w-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/is-there-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-w-john-mearsheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w\/ John Mearsheimer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21 Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Iran agrees to resume negotiations in Islamabad, John Mearsheimer dissects the complicated challenges and competing interests facing the United States as the countdown to the end of the ceasefire begins.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w\/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMg6_jGfjzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Apr 2026 &#8211; As Iran agrees to resume negotiations in Islamabad, John Mearsheimer dissects the complicated challenges and competing interests facing the United States as the countdown to the end of the ceasefire begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3729,2628,742,1302,249,70,481],"class_list":["post-315306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-ceasefire","tag-conflict-mediation","tag-iran","tag-pakistan","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315307,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315306\/revisions\/315307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}