By John J. Mearsheimer
John's Substack
June 23, 2026
On 21 June 2026, I was on Tom Switzer's podcast - "Switzerland" - with Trita Parsi. We focused almost exclusively on the negotiations between Iran and the US, which had begun earlier that day in a resort near Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. It is fair to say those negotiations got off to an inauspicious start, raising doubts about whether the two sides would ever reach a deal.