It was supposed to be quick. Still, six months after the United States (US) and Israel launched massive airstrikes on Iran, the conflict drags on. The Donald Trump administration has replaced its military war with an economic one, but the result is likely to be no different, analysts said, with a lack of American clarity about goals, a decline in American credibility and a strategic defeat.
On the first day of the war, February 28, US President Trump promised Iranians that “the hour of your freedom is at hand.” Six months later, his…