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.

2 days 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.

Based on what can be objectively and openly assessed, Israel and the United States achieved overwhelming success at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

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.

June 24, 2025 - Iran emerged from the war bruised and bombed, suffering hundreds of casualties and real damage from incessant bombing around the country. But the Islamic Republic did not crumble, even when facing a massive Israeli force.

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.

June 25, 2025 - By this perverse logic, it is Iran that has emerged victorious in the latest war, since, irrespective of the fact that Israel achieved its war objectives and even though Israel was able to hit Iranian nuclear sites and degrade its military ...

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.

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.

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.

June 25, 2025 - If the ceasefire does hold, then experts tell Newsweek that Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu is a big winner from the conflict, while Iran's Ayotallah Ali Khamenei is a big loser.

June 25, 2025 - Finally, Israel proved it can convince the US to enter a limited Middle Eastern offensive it has started. In previous wars in 1967 and 1973, the US had provided material support to Israel when it was attacked, but had not assisted it with direct ...

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.

June 25, 2025 - According to the statement issued by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there is no doubt that Israel won. “All the goals of the operation have been realized,” wrote the author of the press release.

June 16, 2025 - Trump may be the wild card here depending on whether he wants to let the two sides “fight it out,” or if he decides to press Israel to wind down its attacks and Iran to return to nuclear negotiations. Given that a nuclear deal in which Iran gives up enrichment is unlikely, even if a temporary halt to the fighting is achieved, Israel will keep Iran in its crosshairs and conflict between the two countries will dominate Trump’s Middle East agenda for the forseeable future.