Trump's U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel's Middle East dream

Trump's U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel's Middle East dream Submitted by David Hearst on Wed, 06/17/2026 - 08:11 The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated 'greater Israel' at its head A woman holds an Iranian flag on a street in Tehran, Iran, on 10 June, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters) On Of all the military failures the US has suffered in the past 25 years in the Middle East, the Iran war is probably the most consequential. Unlike America’s military interventions in Afghanistan , Iraq , Yemen , Libya and Syria , the Islamic Republic did not just survive another US attempt at regime change.