President Donald Trump is attempting to avoid answering the political question: Did the attack, obliteration or not achieve the political outcome demanded by Trump, "unconditional surrender"?

President Donald Trump is attempting to avoid answering the political question did the attack, obliteration or not achieve the political outcome demanded by Trump, "unconditional surrender"? There is no Iranian "unconditional surrender" or even conditional surrender. Questioning the effectiveness of a military action is not questioning the bravery of those who were tasked with a military objective, nor is it claiming the military personnel did not effectively conduct the attack to the degree their process-ordinance enabled. It is not even relevant for military actions are undertaken to achieve a political goal. It does not matter if the military strike result was obliteration or partial. It is the resultant outcome of the political strike. The political result: The Iran regime is intact; “Iran has retained irreversible nuclear knowledge and capabilities,” Iran won the war. The US ran away. As the US has from Russia. President Donald Trump carries a stick made of Jell-O, and a mouth as loud and wide as a hurricane. "The UN's nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says Iran has retained irreversible nuclear knowledge and capabilities, raising doubts about how effective US strikes to destroy Tehran's nuclear program have been." “Iran has not responded to requests to resume nuclear inspections, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said on Thursday, after Iran’s parliament voted to suspend cooperation with the UN watchdog.” “The Islamic Republic also triumphed here and delivered a harsh blow to America. My second congratulations go to our dear Iran for its victory over the American regime,” Khamenei said. “The US entered direct war because it felt that if it did not, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. Yet, it gained nothing from this war. Here, too, the Islamic Republic emerged victorious and delivered a harsh slap to America’s face.” “On June 29, 2025, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa stating that the punishment for U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who threatened Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with assassination, is the same as the punishment for muhareb – that is, a person defined as an enemy of God and Islam who is gravely threatening or conducting an armed rebellion against the Islamic public order. In Shi'ite Islam, and particularly under Iranian religious law, the punishment for this is particularly severe and is usually death; less often, it could be exile, amputation of the transgressor's right arm and left leg, or crucifixion.” […] The next day, June 30, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani published a similar fatwa, in response to a request submitted to him to set a high price for anyone threatening Khamenei's life, in the form of an historic fatwa expressing the might of Islam that will deter America and Israel. Hamedani, one of the most prominent of the Shi'ite religious authorities in Iran and one affiliated with the revolutionary-conservative stream, stated that any harm or insult to Khamenei was fundamentally harm or insult to Islam, and that the punishment for anyone harming or threatening him was like that for a muhareb. He added that protecting Khamenei was a religious obligation for all Muslims, and that any assistance to those harming him is also considered punishable by death according to the religion.” If history of biology/culture ideologies, success or failure were measured in a day or a week, then yes. "The Iranians did everything wrong." We are safer. But the reality is that such things are measured in multiple years, decades, or centuries. Christians' domination of the Greek Roman biology/culture Neo-Platonists is a case in point approx. four hundred years. Western Allies' subjugation of Germany and Japan in WWII is a case in point approx. 6 years. The Union military defeat of the Confederates approx. 4 years with the enforcement of the US constitution codex still at work to affect value belief alignment. There is a common indicator of success in the above examples, all involving forced change of political codex of the military defeated, subjugated to align to the dominating force culture ideology. Cultural Ideology sensitivity simply keeps violent conflict methodology alive “Overwhelming success”? If the only objective of the US attack on Iranian uranium processing were to show how accurate and effective the US military machine is, then yes, it may be determined a triumph. If the political objective was to force the Islamic Iranian regime to do anything other than dissimulate to rebuild a more lethal threat to Israel and Western Democracies, then it is a complete failure. All Trump has done is drop a few small bombs, claiming their effect is the same as the atomic bombs dropped on “Hiroshima and Nagasaki” which led to regime change replaced by Western Democratic institutions thereby securing lasting peace. Trump has left the Islamic regime intact its elite remains. It is the same result as if in WWII, Roosevelt kept the Nazi party in power after partially destroying V2 rocket development arguing the war was won as the Nazis agreed to negotiate stopping work on the V2 rockets. Hitler remains in power. The death camps continue their grotesque horror. Does the war cease? No. Why? Firstly, the Antithesis codex word categorisation of Other, and conflict resolution methodology have not changed. "Research suggests words significantly shape a culture’s motivation, beliefs, and actions." GROK 3 2025. This is why I am justified in my view Islam-Muslims are an existential threat-danger to themselves and Other as is Nazism for the same reason their codex words are the mirror image of the other. https://citizensfirstasnau.blogspot.com/2025/06/research-suggests-words-significantly.html Secondly, Antithesis Biology/Culture Ideologies repeatedly Dissimulate (Adapt, Discover, Improvise) until they reach thresholds to Overcome or are allowed to survive to repeat the process. The Iranian Islamic regime is intact to strengthen its military and infrastructure resilience along with its allies to develop the means to counter revealed US military capability. Which does not exclude infiltration into Western installations, landscapes to conduct destruction of military civilian assets, and compromise infrastructure communication, energy networks food chains or biological warfare. There has been no victory, it has only enabled worse to come, much worse.