Six Months on, the Iran War Has Changed the Middle East, but Not in the Way Its Architects Had Hoped
U.S. officials say Iran’s military has been degraded, but key goals on nuclear deterrence, proxy support and shipping access remain unresolved.
- Six months after President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran in February, no off-ramp exists despite repeated assertions that the conflict nears resolution.
- Trump's original objectives—regime change and degrading proxy networks—failed to materialize, leaving what former assistant secretary of state Barbara Leaf called a "hardened and very radical regime."
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported "massive destruction" of Iran's defense industrial base with "80 to 90% of attrition" in early June, though Tehran maintains about 440 kilograms of enriched uranium.
- Worried by gaps in the American security umbrella, Saudi Arabia entered a defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey last month, signaling shifting regional priorities amid doubts about U.S. commitment.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox & Friends on Thursday that no negotiations are occurring, as the administration waits for Tehran to come to the table in a "meaningful way.
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"It will take four weeks - or less," Trump says at the beginning of the Iran war. Meanwhile, the conflict in the Middle East has been going on for six months. A look back shows how stuck the situation between Washington and Tehran is and why a rapid end to the war is hard to imagine.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Seung-wook = As the war with Iran, which U.S. President Donald Trump boasted would end in a few weeks, continues into its sixth month, extending beyond the Middle East...
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Six months on, the Iran war has changed the Middle East, but not in the way its architects had hoped
It’s been six months since the United States and Israel attacked Iran with the perennial goal of transforming the Middle East through military force. The region has changed, but not in the way they had hoped.
60-day period of the Memorandum of Understanding to end the war between the US and Iran approaches the end with an impasse The war in the Middle East completes six months on Friday (28), with effects that crossed the borders of the region and reached the energy, food and investment markets around the world. The conflict began on February 28, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Since then, restrictions on the passage of oil and other…
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