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Iran Deal Can Work If We Hit Them Every Time They Break It

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Iran Deal Can Work If We Hit Them Every Time They Break It — A drone view shows vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on June 15, 2026. STR/Reuters

Victor Davis Hanson

6/16/2026|Updated: 6/16/2026

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This is a lightly edited transcript of a June 15 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

There’s a lot of confusion, controversy, and disagreement about the latest phase of the Iran war. Remember, we bombed kinetically 38 to 40 days, then we had 60 days of negotiation, then here we are in mid-June, in which [President] Donald Trump has announced yet another time there is going to be a peace deal coming with a 60-day period for all the elements of the deal to be enacted.

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Victor Davis Hanson

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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”