At Least Listen to Mearsheimer's Views

In response to the host's question about Iran's inclusion of new conditions in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, he raises an interesting question and asks, "Well, tell me what additional demands do you think the Iranians have that are not in the June 17 Memorandum of Understanding." In fact, according to him, Iran's maximum demands have been achieved in this text.

This professor of political science continues that "in my opinion, the June 17 memorandum was very comprehensive and I do not see that the Iranians have raised important demands beyond that. The only thing that really changed in my opinion was that the Iranians insisted that many of the demands raised in the June 17 memorandum be met before the negotiations began. So what changed was the timing, not the demands themselves." That the text accepted by America is one thing and its full implementation is another thing. In one step, Iran was able to achieve victory by imposing its will and bring a text to a conclusion, and in the next step, it has to force America to implement its clauses again by imposing its own will. Undoubtedly, the United States will not voluntarily implement this text, and the signature of Trump or any other American official has no value; What is important is our strength and power, which should compel America. But if this text was not obtained in the previous stage, there would be no basis for imposing the said will. So these are all steps towards the full implementation of Iran's demands.

"If you look at the June 17 memorandum, it is practically a surrender document for America; It is really a remarkable document, because President Trump has signed an agreement that actually gives the Iranians great privileges. By signing this document, President Trump was actually saying that America had lost this war. Therefore, I am not very surprised that he finally withdrew from this document, and I truly believe that it was America that withdrew from the June 17 memorandum, not the Iranians. In my opinion, the Iranians had no motivation to withdraw from this memorandum because it was a victory for Iran, but the United States was really skeptical about it. Trump signed it, but I think he hesitated little by little, became afraid to step forward, and the United States withdrew." These statements are not from an Iranian official; Rather, it is the words of an important and effective American theoretician who introduces the Islamabad Memorandum as a document of America's defeat and a document of victory or a document of Iranian pride. We may not agree with all Mearsheimer's words, but we can see how this great victory of Iran is in his opinion. The question is, why did some people destroy this narrative of victory in Iran and turn it into a narrative of defeat and surrender?