In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews Professor John Mearsheimer, a leading expert on international relations at the University of Chicago. They discuss the recent Israeli and U.S. bombing campaign against Iran, its lack of legal justification, and its likely consequences – including the strengthening of Iranian hardliners and increased incentives for Iran to pursue nuclear weapons. The conversation also addresses the ongoing genocide in Gaza, U.S. complicity in enabling it, the shifting discourse around the Israel lobby, and growing censorship and suppression of dissent on U.S. college campuses.
This video was produced by System Update and published on their Rumble channel on the 24th of June, 2025.
To read the transcript of the interview: Prof. John Mearsheimer on U.S./Israeli War with Iran, Gaza, Trump’s Foreign Policy, and More
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021). Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.
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