“We are fighting to win,” says Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense. But Iran appears to be a formidable adversary, whose power was largely underestimated by Donald Trump and his entourage.
Tehran has announced the development of new weapons during the ceasefire and claims to have the means to circumvent the US naval blockade.
This is a worst-case scenario that the US president wanted to avoid, as the Iranian regime still refuses to compromise on the Strait of Hormuz and on the nuclear issue.