Six Months of US-Israel-Iran War Strains Leaders at Home

Six months after a US-Israel strike killed Iran's Supreme Leader and other officials, the war has produced no clear victor: Iran's nuclear material and proxies remain intact, Trump's approval has fallen amid rising fuel prices and new sanctions, and Netanyahu trails in Israeli polls after failing to secure the regime change he sought. Israel is now widely blamed in the US for dragging Washington into an unpopular war, while Iran treats the standoff as a matter of survival, leaving the region primed for further escalation rather than settlement.