The USA can never win the war in Iran because they've never defined what winning means.
https://warontherocks.com/tactical-success-strategic-failure-washington-walks-the-path-to-defeat-in-iran/
'The war has not failed because the bombs and missiles missed. The war failed because the men who ordered the bombing could not answer, before they ordered it or at any point thereafter, the one question that makes war something other than organized violence: What are we trying to get the enemy to do and how does this make them do it? In other words, what is our theory of victory — the connection between our aims and actions?'
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