Where things stand with Iran war in its third week
Who benefits from this decision?
America’s war against Iran is continuing in its third week without any reduction in intensity or imminent signs of its conclusion, despite statements from senior American officials about the successes already achieved.
U.S. forces have struck more than 7,000 targets in the first two and a half weeks of the war, which began on February 28. Comparatively, Iran has launched three hundred attacks on about a dozen countries in the region that, aside from Israel, did not attack it first.
U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump, have said the U.S. military has already had significant success, but they have not yet indicated that all their goals have been accomplished.
“The joint force remains focused on three military objectives: continue to destroy Iranian ballistic missiles and drone capability in order to prevent attacks on the U.S. and others throughout the region. And this means attacking launch sites, command and control nodes, stockpiles before they can threaten our personnel, our facilities, and our partners,” Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Staff, said last week.
“Second, we continue to strike the Iranian Navy and their capabilities in order to do things like sustain movement through the Straits of Hormuz,” he continued. “And third, we continue to start working on and going deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base in order to prevent the regime from being able to attack Americans, our interests, and our partners for years to come and project power outside their borders.”
U.S. forces have largely destroyed Iran’s air force and navy, but they still have the ability to launch ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones, though they’re decreasing in frequency.
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before. Never before has a modern capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective, devastated,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said last Friday.
Opening the Strait
Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Despite U.S. successes in the war, Iran has largely been able to shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran’s coast that is vital to global oil shipping.
Roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and other oil products normally pass through the strait daily, equivalent …
Who benefits from this decision?
America’s war against Iran is continuing in its third week without any reduction in intensity or imminent signs of its conclusion, despite statements from senior American officials about the successes already achieved.
U.S. forces have struck more than 7,000 targets in the first two and a half weeks of the war, which began on February 28. Comparatively, Iran has launched three hundred attacks on about a dozen countries in the region that, aside from Israel, did not attack it first.
U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump, have said the U.S. military has already had significant success, but they have not yet indicated that all their goals have been accomplished.
“The joint force remains focused on three military objectives: continue to destroy Iranian ballistic missiles and drone capability in order to prevent attacks on the U.S. and others throughout the region. And this means attacking launch sites, command and control nodes, stockpiles before they can threaten our personnel, our facilities, and our partners,” Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Staff, said last week.
“Second, we continue to strike the Iranian Navy and their capabilities in order to do things like sustain movement through the Straits of Hormuz,” he continued. “And third, we continue to start working on and going deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base in order to prevent the regime from being able to attack Americans, our interests, and our partners for years to come and project power outside their borders.”
U.S. forces have largely destroyed Iran’s air force and navy, but they still have the ability to launch ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones, though they’re decreasing in frequency.
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before. Never before has a modern capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective, devastated,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said last Friday.
Opening the Strait
Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Despite U.S. successes in the war, Iran has largely been able to shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran’s coast that is vital to global oil shipping.
Roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and other oil products normally pass through the strait daily, equivalent …
Where things stand with Iran war in its third week
Who benefits from this decision?
America’s war against Iran is continuing in its third week without any reduction in intensity or imminent signs of its conclusion, despite statements from senior American officials about the successes already achieved.
U.S. forces have struck more than 7,000 targets in the first two and a half weeks of the war, which began on February 28. Comparatively, Iran has launched three hundred attacks on about a dozen countries in the region that, aside from Israel, did not attack it first.
U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump, have said the U.S. military has already had significant success, but they have not yet indicated that all their goals have been accomplished.
“The joint force remains focused on three military objectives: continue to destroy Iranian ballistic missiles and drone capability in order to prevent attacks on the U.S. and others throughout the region. And this means attacking launch sites, command and control nodes, stockpiles before they can threaten our personnel, our facilities, and our partners,” Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Staff, said last week.
“Second, we continue to strike the Iranian Navy and their capabilities in order to do things like sustain movement through the Straits of Hormuz,” he continued. “And third, we continue to start working on and going deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base in order to prevent the regime from being able to attack Americans, our interests, and our partners for years to come and project power outside their borders.”
U.S. forces have largely destroyed Iran’s air force and navy, but they still have the ability to launch ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones, though they’re decreasing in frequency.
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before. Never before has a modern capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective, devastated,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said last Friday.
Opening the Strait
Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Despite U.S. successes in the war, Iran has largely been able to shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran’s coast that is vital to global oil shipping.
Roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and other oil products normally pass through the strait daily, equivalent …
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