Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeJuly 16, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump doesn't intend to attack Iran's missile bases and nuclear facilities or destroy its enriched uranium. Nor is he threatening the lives of leaders of the "new regime" in Tehran. The dozens of strikes the United States has conducted on Iranian targets can still be considered "surgical," and their purpose, according to Trump, is to force Iran to return to the negotiating table. In the NewsU.S., Iran Exchange Fire for 12th Night in a Row; Houthis Target Saudi Tankers'Liars, Poison': Shin Bet Chief Shared His Anti-media Manifesto With Top AgentsTrump Wants a Lebanon Triumph. Israel Is Losing Its Seat at the TablePolice Let Over 1,000 Jews to Pray Across Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa on Tisha B'AvJudge Justifies Jewish Terror. Israel Must Act on West Bank Settler ViolenceRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Most Optimistic Israeli in Jerusalem Is Leaving the CountryAs Ground Invasion Looms, U.S. and Iran Want Wild-card Israel Out of the FightThe Original Ozempic Society of Ancient RomeBetween Messi and Milei: How Argentina Became Israel's Team at the World CupDemocrats Rejected U.S. Aid to Israel, and AIPAC Couldn't Stop Them'Choose Hope': Natalie Portman Backs Arab-Jewish Party Ahead of Israeli Election
Analysis • The fight for Hormuz shows how far U.S.-Iran war strayed from its original goals
The struggle over the strait has replaced the original rationale for the war – the end Iran's nuclear program, as well as the military threat it poses, via the ridiculous attempts to try to topple the Ayatollah regime












