After 47 years of confronting Iran, does America have a strategy for ending this war?

President Donald Trump stood before the United Nations and presented Iran with a choice: reach an agreement that would allow the country to rebuild or face the destruction of the Islamic Republic. The following day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected surrender while leaving the door open to negotiations.

More than seven months into the war, Washington still has not answered the question that has dogged American policy since 1979: What political outcome is America trying to achieve, and how will military force bring it about?