An analysis in Britain's “Guardian” on the 29th pointed out that the US recently announced the suspension of attacks on Iran rather than escalating military operations, showing that the US side realizes that it is difficult to achieve its previously announced goals with military strength alone. The US military bombing did not bring Iran to its knees. If the US wants to achieve its stated goals, it will have to fight a “ground war that it does not want to fight,” and continuing negotiations is probably the least costly option. On the 24th, the US military suspended air strikes against Iran, which continued for 13 days. US President Trump told the media on the 27th that he decided to suspend attacks on Iran in order to give negotiations a chance, but if diplomatic efforts fail, he may order the resumption of large-scale military operations. “The Guardian” analyzed that the situation in Iran over the past five months clearly shows how a conflict with asymmetric forces has turned around. From the perspective of military confrontation, the conflict caused the deaths of about 3,500 Iranians, and air strikes led by the US military also caused losses of 150 billion US dollars to 270 billion US dollars. However, Hisham Hellyer, an expert on Middle East issues at the British Royal Three Armies Research Institute, believes that Iran's definition of “victory” in this war has changed; at first, “only survives,” but now standards have been raised. The Iranian government has made it clear that it will not back down and at the same time changed the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. This war also seriously consumed the US military, and outsiders therefore questioned how the US could continue to defend the US military bases in the Gulf countries.

An analysis in Britain's “Guardian” on the 29th pointed out that the US recently announced the suspension of attacks on Iran rather than escalating military operations, showing that the US side realizes that it is difficult to achieve its previously announced goals with military strength alone. The US military bombing did not bring Iran to its knees. If the US wanted to achieve its stated goals, it would have to fight a “ground war that it did not want to fight,” and continuing negotiations is probably the least costly option. On the 24th, the US military suspended air strikes against Iran, which continued for 13 days. US President Trump told the media on the 27th that he decided to suspend attacks on Iran in order to give negotiations a chance, but if diplomatic efforts fail, he may order the resumption of large-scale military operations. “The Guardian” analyzed that the situation in Iran over the past five months clearly shows how a conflict with asymmetric forces has turned around. From the perspective of military confrontation, the conflict caused the deaths of about 3,500 Iranians, and air strikes led by the US military also caused losses of 150 billion US dollars to 270 billion US dollars. However, Hisham Hellyer, an expert on Middle East issues at the British Royal Three Armies Research Institute, believes that Iran's definition of “victory” in this war has changed; at first, “only survives,” but now standards have been raised. The Iranian government has made it clear that it will not back down and at the same time changed the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. This war also seriously consumed the US military, and outsiders therefore questioned how the US could continue to defend the US military bases in the Gulf countries.