Who's Winning in Iran After a Month of War?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The U.S. continues to make military progress but its strategic goals remain elusive. President Trump contemplates sending ground troops for discrete missions in Iran, and financial markets try to assess the economic impact of the Iran oil shock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:41.7	A month into the war with Iran,
0:47.8	where does the U.S.-Israeli campaign stand? Is it meeting its objectives? And will Donald Trump deploy ground troops to achieve them? Plus, our financial markets telling us there's
0:52.7	trouble ahead for the economy from the Iran oil shock.
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1:01.5	Opinion. I'm Paul Giego, here with my Iran watchers, Joe Sternberg and Elliot Kaufman.
1:07.4	So President Trump said Monday his negotiators are in touch with a new group of leaders in
1:12.6	Iran that he says are easier to deal with and that he hopes a deal can be worked out with them.
1:19.7	If not, he will hit them even harder, including hitting their oil production and supplies,
1:27.0	facilities, energy production, and even water desalination
1:31.6	plants.
1:33.0	Let's listen to President Trump on Air Force One on the weekend.
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