Both Adversaries Miscalculated Course of Expanding Conflict

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, well into its second week, has now involved at least 12 nations, with economic and political shocks reverberating around the world. Neither side has achieved its strategic objectives so far, and both boast that they can outlast the other.

- Yaroslav Trofimov

A masked police officer stood guard Tuesday in Tehran under a poster of Iran's late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

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