The actual (not the press-focused) military objectives were achieved in the Iran war. Noah is just wrong, as are most about this. The press claims incorrectly that Iran still has a nuke program. No, it’s gone. That Iran still wants to build nukes is all that remains, and I guess that’s what the press is talking about (strangely), but the facilities are destroyed. Most if not all of the centrifuges are in tiny pieces strewn over the landscape.

Claiming the US lost the war is like believing that because Germany still exists we lost WWII. It’s just oafish stupidity and not understanding what even the actual military objectives of the conflict were.