Keeping a front of slow victory and progress, the Trump administration had told the public about the destruction of the Iranian military. But behind the doors, the American intelligence admits a drastically different reality that suggests that Iran remains a strong military force, despite several weeks of sustained American and Israeli attacks, as reported by the The New York Times. US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have kept their stance clear on the messaging, maintaining that Iran was on the brink of losing the war. The US president told CBS News on March 9 that Iran’s missiles were reduced to “a scatter” and that the country had “nothing left in a military sense.” This was followed by Hegseth’s public declaration of the stop of Operation Epic Fury, saying that the operation had “decimated” the Iranian military and “rendered it combat- ineffective for years to come”. What does the classified intelligence reveal? Less than a month after the US Defence Secretary’s announcement, classified intelligence assessments said that the supposed “war-torn” Iran has regained …