Middle East conflict looks increasingly like a war nobody can win

By: Bamo Nouri, Inderjeet Parmar

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: April 27, 2026

Words: 1,138

Last Updated: 3 months ago


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Let’s begin with a simple question that rarely gets a straight answer: what would victory over Iran actually look like? In Washington and Jerusalem, the answers tend to sound definitive: eliminate Iran’s nuclear capability, break its regional power, perhaps even force political change at the top. It’s the language of decisive war, the kind with a clear endpoint.

But shift the perspective to Tehran, and the definition changes completely. Victory, for Iran, is …

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