{"id":72521,"date":"2026-04-23T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trumps-war-has-backfired-spectacularly-iran-is-now-more-influential-than-ever-fawaz-gerges\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:54:54","slug":"trumps-war-has-backfired-spectacularly-iran-is-now-more-influential-than-ever-fawaz-gerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trumps-war-has-backfired-spectacularly-iran-is-now-more-influential-than-ever-fawaz-gerges\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s war has backfired spectacularly: Iran is now more influential than ever | Fawaz Gerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran has shown that its grip over the strait of Hormuz is its most potent deterrent \u2013 arguably more consequential than its now defunct nuclear programme<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fawaz Gerges is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s decision to go to war against Iran will be remembered as a grave strategic miscalculation \u2013 one that has reshaped the region in unintended and destabilising ways. With the ceasefire now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/trump-resume-bombing-iran-ceasefire\">extended indefinitely<\/a>, we can see more clearly how the war has undermined the US\u2019s standing in the world and failed to achieve its core objectives: it has neither brought about regime change in Tehran, nor forced Iran to submit to American demands. Far from it.<\/p>\n<p>By inflicting economic pain far beyond the region and slowing the global economy, Iran has demonstrated that its grip over the strait of Hormuz constitutes its most potent deterrent \u2013 arguably more consequential than its now defunct nuclear programme. Control of the strait will be Tehran\u2019s most powerful source of leverage in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/23\/donald-trump-iran-war-tehran-strait-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran has shown that its grip over the strait of Hormuz is its most potent deterrent \u2013 arguably more consequential than its now defunct nuclear programme Fawaz Gerges is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics Donald Trump\u2019s decision to go to war against Iran will be remembered as a grave strategic &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s war has backfired spectacularly: Iran is now more influential than ever | Fawaz Gerges\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trumps-war-has-backfired-spectacularly-iran-is-now-more-influential-than-ever-fawaz-gerges\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s war has backfired spectacularly: Iran is now more influential than ever | Fawaz Gerges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}