America’s war against Iran is continuing in its third week without any reduction in intensity or imminent signs of its conclusion, despite statements from senior American officials about the successes already achieved.

U.S. forces have struck more than 7,000 targets in the first two and a half weeks of the war, which began on February 28. Comparatively, Iran has launched three hundred attacks on about a dozen countries in the region that, aside from Israel, did not attack it first.