Iran hat Trumps Knochensporn gefunden

“Iran’s military leaders have greeted the cease-fire agreement with President Trump as a triumph, crowing that ‘through the imposition of their divine and iron will’ they had ‘humiliated American and Zionist enemies.’ Mostly, they’re right,” Times Opinion columnist Bret Stephens writes.

Most of the formidable power and influence that Iran had before the Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, is either gone or diminished, Bret continues. “Those are real achievements against an evil, ambitious regime. Yet the outcome of war rarely rests on a tally of relative strength. War is a contest of wills. And in that contest, the hard men of Tehran appear to have scored a decisive victory over the vain man of Washington.”

Read the full piece [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/iran-us-war-trump-cease-fire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.17EY.F_d1lR_Qv-YS&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

The Iran coverage has been pretty one-note for a while now, and this headline feels like it’s trying way too hard to land a joke about something from decades ago.