{"id":506987,"date":"2026-06-23T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:45:11","slug":"trumps-march-of-folly-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506987\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s march of folly in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn promoting his \u201cdeal\u201d with Iran, US President Donald Trump has tried to dress up a humiliating defeat as a victory. While it\u2019s tempting to blame this outcome on incompetent leadership, it stems more from the policies and institutions that have allowed entertainers and profiteers to rise to power.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-line-id=\"8067b5efc1d34ee3a95f0f7160068d94\">TORONTO\u2014America has capitulated to Iran. The \u201cmemorandum of understanding\u201d signed by the two sides specifies terms that spell victory for the Islamic Republic and humiliation for President Donald Trump and the United States. War, as some people apparently needed to learn, is not about the pleasure one takes in watching things blow up. It is politics by other means. And as Iran has just demonstrated, winning means changing the enemy\u2019s politics so that they are forced to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>About the author:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-line-id=\"8067b5efc1d34ee3a95f0f7160068d94\">Timothy Snyder, the inaugural Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, is the author or editor of 20 books.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"8067b5efc1d34ee3a95f0f7160068d94\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/order\/subscription?trigger=footer&amp;url=%2Fcommentary%2Ffrench-presidential-frontrunner-jordan-bardella-more-opportunist-than-arsonist-by-brigitte-granville-2026-01&amp;redirect=%2Fcommentary%2Ffrench-presidential-frontrunner-jordan-bardella-more-opportunist-than-arsonist-by-brigitte-granville-2026-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PS_Digital_1200x600.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In promoting his \u201cdeal\u201d with Iran, US President Donald Trump has tried to dress up a humiliating defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-506987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}