The war on Iran was a strategic disaster for America and Israel

The war on Iran was a strategic disaster for America and Israel Submitted by Sami Al-Arian on Mon, 06/22/2026 - 09:58 The Islamabad agreement reads less like terms imposed on a defeated state than like a retreat from the American-Zionist project to remake the region Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs the memorandum of understanding to end the war with the United States and Israel, in Tehran on 18 June 2026 (Iranian Presidency Handout/AFP) On When neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, who spent decades as a cheerleader for America's forever wars, warned that the confrontation with Iran could become one of the greatest strategic defeats in modern American history, many dismissed his assessment as alarmist and exaggerated. After all, the conventional wisdom in the West is that Iran had suffered extensive damage. Its military infrastructure was targeted, its foremost leaders, senior commanders and scientists were assassinated, its economy was battered, and the Axis of Resistance absorbed serious blows across multiple fronts.