John Mearsheimer
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first heard Jul 2026
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They did not go after power plants.
They did not go after desalination plants, which they had been doing.
We had been moving in that direction, but that stopped last night.
And the question you have to ask yourself is, number one,
why and number two is that a harbinger of what we think will happen in the coming week now my guess is that it stopped last night because the gulf states called up president trump and said you absolutely cannot go after civilian infrastructure inside of iran because if the iranians retaliate they will destroy our societies they will wreck our power plants they will wreck our desalination plants
And it looks like, again, just looks like Trump listened.
And then that raises the question, what will Trump do this coming week?
Because he has promised that he is going to unleash the dogs and go after all this civilian infrastructure in Iran.
But he now knows what the consequences of that will be.
Well, I think you're right that he signed the MOU on 17 June.
And as I've emphasized on numerous occasions, on numerous platforms, that was a surrender document.
The Iranians won on every point.
Then after signing the agreement, he decided to challenge the Iranians on the whole question of who controls the Strait of Hormuz.
To me, it was very clear from Article 5 of the Memorandum of Understanding that Iran controlled the Strait in the 60-day negotiating period, and then moving forward, control of the Strait would be settled between Iran and Amman.
That was the deal.
There was nothing about the United States controlling the Strait, but what President Trump tried to do was open a US-dominated channel in the Gulf that got around Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz.
And the Iranians said, unsurprisingly, this is unacceptable and it violates Article 5.
But Trump felt confident
that he could basically throw the MOU under the bus and he could engage in a tit-for-tat military strategy with the Iranians where the United States would win.
In other words, he seemed to believe that we had newfound coercive leverage
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