Almost 10 weeks since the US–Israel war with Iran began, Dr Christian Emery (UCL SEES) reflects on the Trump administration’s decisions and questions its claims of victory. In an article for The Conversation, he examines how the conflict has damaged America's credibility. Two months into the war in Iran, the reasons the US gave for launching this conflict – and Washington’s minimum criteria for claiming success – now appear unintelligible. So much so that US officials are now arguing the war