Trump claiming Iran war ‘win’ – here’s the reality

May 8, 2026
Christian Emery

Trump’s shifting aims and desperate scramble for an exit show that the entire enterprise has been a colossal strategic failure

An Iranian walks next to a mural painted on a wall in Tehran, Iran, on May 4. Photo: Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA via The Conversation

‘An Almost Unthinkable Threat’: Trump Warning That Iran Will ‘Glow’ Sparks Latest Fears of Nuclear Attack

May 8, 2026
Stephen Prager

“It again raises urgent questions: Is this president fit to lead and make consequential decisions that impact countless lives?” said the National Iranian-American Council.

When Trump Compares Iran to Vietnam or Iraq

May 8, 2026
Mitchell Zimmerman

Neither of the two previous quagmires was revealed in its calamitous stupidity as swiftly as Trump’s war on Iran, writes Mitchell Zimmerman.

Satellite imagery of black smoke rising from the Port of Salalah on March 13, during Iranian strikes on Oman. (CC BY 4.0 /Wikimedia Commons)

Iran war marks the end of American primacy as we know it

May 8, 2026
Trita Parsi

For states that had opted to depend on US protection, this should be a wake-up call

Trump knows he lost the Iran war, and is now desperate to find a way out

May 8, 2026
Mitchell Plitnick 

Recent U.S. moves indicate that Donald Trump has finally recognized the disastrous mistake he made by listening to Benjamin Netanyahu and launching the war on Iran. Now he is looking to cut a deal, but Israel won't make it easy.