Iran–Israel war

9 hours ago - The latter Israeli strikes destroyed Iran's Russian-supplied defensive S-300 missile system, which Iran denied, paving the way for potential future Israeli strikes. Iran had consistently said that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes and that it has never intended to develop nuclear weapons. However, since 2019, it had repeatedly violated the terms of the previous nuclear deal of 2015, and in June 2025 the IAEA reported that Iran had acquired enough enriched uranium to produce nine nuclear warheads.

2 weeks ago - Israel and Hamas reach a ceasefire agreement; the initial stage involves the exchange of Israeli hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners by Israel and the surge of aid into Gaza. ... Trump returns to office in Washington. After winning the November 2024 presidential election, Trump again takes office in the White House. January 29 Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed president of Syria. The rebel leader formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is appointed president of Syria, formalizing his place as the country’s leader.

June 25, 2025 - Israel compelled Iran to stop. The United States reinforced that outcome. Iran, for all its threats and weapons, could not impose its will on anyone. The true winner of this war is not only Israel or the United States.

July 1, 2025 - But as they were already en route, Trump publicly warned Israel on his Truth Social account, “DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS,” forcing the planes to turn back. On the surface, Netanyahu appears to be the big winner of this war in Israel.

June 25, 2025 - Jeffrey Lewis, a CNS professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, said that if Iran did decide to make a dash for a bomb it would take about five months to make enough fissile material for a small nuclear arsenal. US intelligence agencies and the IAEA agree that before the Israeli attack, there was no sign that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had ordered the construction of a warhead. The risk posed by the Israeli and US bombing campaign is that it could now change his mind, finally persuading him that only a nuclear weapon can deter Iran’s enemies.

July 16, 2025 - Current events also demonstrate, yet again, the Islamic Republic’s strategic loneliness: it is facing the militarily superior Israel – backed by the US and some of its allies, and with tacit support from several Arab powers – completely alone.

2 weeks ago - All of this, of course, made it possible for Israel, together with the US, to inflict serious damage on the enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow, as well as the conversion facility in Isfahan. However, these operational successes did not translate into a true strategic achievement, because from Tehran's perspective, Iran did not actually lose the war.

July 24, 2025 - A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and aide to the IRGC’s chief said the 12-day war with Israel ended with an absolute win for Tehran, adding Iran could have carried on the fight for years if necessary.

November 3, 2025 - Decades of tensions with Iran culminated in the short but sharp 12-Day War in June. The United States and Israel won the battle, but this is just one round in the war Tehran still intends to win.Iran’s atomic infrastructure is entombed in rubble.

August 5, 2025 - After its 12-day war with Iran in June, Israel is in a far superior military and regional position than it was in 1967. It has neutered its most serious regional threats, and it has been decades since an Arab state fought a war with Israel.

July 16, 2025 - The war demonstrated that deterrence in modern warfare is no longer a static binary. It is fluid, multifaceted, and cumulative. Israel’s ability to deliver high-impact strikes while defending its population centers showcased a powerful deterrent capacity. However, Iran’s survival, retaliation, and proxy endurance highlight the difficulty of achieving strategic resolution through force alone.

Although the interception rate was reportedly around 80-90%,10 the sophistication of Iran’s missile arsenal posed a more lethal threat to Israel during these 12 days than in any previous phases since the start of the Gaza war: Rocket, missile, and drone fire from Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen over more than 600 days resulted in just over 40 Israeli civilian deaths and over 3,000 injuries.11 While the war underscored the clear superiority of Israel’s military capabilities, it also revealed the country’s limitations when confronting a distant but powerful adversary. The Israel-Iran conflict is rooted not in territorial or ethnic disputes, but in ideological hostility dating back to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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October 3, 2025 - Despite an obvious tactical win, the strategic success of the US and Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear threat is at best uncertain, and at worst could have major blowback. The costly war failed to bring Iran and the US closer to a deal.

1 week ago - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe.

1 week ago - Netanyahu claimed a "historic" triumph for his country and warned that Israel would “thwart” any future attempts by Iran to revive its nuclear program. Iran's top security body, meanwhile, said the Islamic Republic's forces had "compelled" ...

November 17, 2025 - Given the challenge of air defense and the lessons from the Iranian missile cities, the North Koreans could easily conclude they need to disperse their forces from their underground bases early in a crisis and ensure they ...