Who won the Iran-US war: Trump, Tehran or Pakistan? And who lost?

According to a PBS NewsHour fact-check, while the US and Israel achieved real battlefield successes, Pentagon officials told Congress that more than 80 per cent of Iran’s missile, drone and naval defence industrial base had been destroyed or damaged, calling the outcome a total victory overlooks a significant shift in Iran’s favour. As one analyst told PBS, Iran has effectively become the “gatekeeper” of the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint that normally carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, handing Tehran a form of durable economic leverage it did not have before the war began. That gap…