The War That Backfired: How the U.S.-Israel Offensive Turned Iran into a Hidden Nuclear Power

“Each passing day makes it clearer: the war against Iran was a historic mistake.” That’s the latest assessment from a senior analyst at the Center for International Policy, a prominent American think tank. This expert — whose articles have appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs — admits that Trump’s claim that attacking Iran brought about a ceasefire in Gaza is simply false.

In fact, the truth seems to lie at the very opposite end of that claim.

As more details surface about the twelve-day confrontation between Iran and Israel, reports increasingly indicate that Iran gained the upper hand from the fifth day onward—exposing the depth of what now looks like a monumental miscalculation.

Many analysts now believe that Iran might already be a de facto nuclear power—one that has, for the first time, truly felt the taste of existential threat.

It’s a scenario the United