How the U.S-Israel Assault on Iran Accelerated Imperial Decline
By Taha Zeinali, Sara Larijani
Center for Resistance, National Sovereignty, and Development (MOHAT), University of Tehran
brief summery of this article:
Although the U.S. and Israeli military attack on Iran in June 2025 yielded some short-term tactical gains, it was, in essence, a profound strategic failure that accelerated the decline of the American-led empire. These assaults exposed the so-called rules-based Western order and revealed the economic unsustainability of imperial military dominance through the emergence of a “reverse cost curve.”
A blatant paradox: the strikes in fact accelerated the very nuclear weapons proliferation they claimed to be preventing. As Jeffrey Lewis had warned, nations concluded: “Without nuclear deterrence, no country is safe from Western aggression.”
Rather than isolating Iran, the attacks elevated its legitimacy and prestige as the vanguard of resistance against Western dominance. Iran emerged as the most influential West Asian power embodying justice and freedom in the face of colonialism.
This act of aggression did not revive the empire—it marked the crisis of its end. A crisis that has strengthened global resistance to Western hegemony, a trend that “Western military force is incapable of reversing.”
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