US may have to ‘accept reality on the ground’ after war on Iran

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the reputation of US military power has been severely damaged internationally after attacking Iran in February. “The US reputation has been irrevocably harmed during the course of this war; there’s no question about that,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera. While Trump claims oil tankers are moving through the Strait of Hormuz with greater frequency, “at the end of the day the tracking data are what they are, and there are very few ships getting through”, he noted.