Iranian flags are seen amongst debris at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, which was hit by US-Israeli strikes on April 7, 2026. | Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
How closely does President Donald Trump’s war in Iran compare with America’s last conflict in the Middle East?
Both the Iran war and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq have paired conventional American military dominance with shifting, ambiguous objectives. And both feature an American president desperate to declare the mission accomplished.
“I do have this kind of really empty, terrible feeling, kind of déjà vu,” Dext...
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