Iran's two-week retaliatory campaign against US aggression in the Strait of Hormuz demonstrated a methodical, multi-layered military strategy that systematically degraded American power projection through infrastructure strikes, A2/AD displacement, extended-range precision, ISR attrition, and terrorist suppression, exposing critical vulnerabilities in American air defense inventories.

This edition features an interview with David Vine, a collaborative writer and a political anthropologist whose work focuses on US foreign and military policy, military bases, forced displacement, and human rights.

Author and political commentator Saeb Shaath says Iran has precise intelligence on US military assets across the Persian Gulf and has severely degraded American bases from Erbil to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Here are Pres TV's latest top stories at 09:00 GMT, on July 22, 2026.

Despite a ceasefire and subsequent MoU, American strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure have triggered successive waves of Iranian missile and drone retaliation against US bases across the Persian Gulf, with operations Nasr-2 and Saeqeh inflicting mounting costs on American forces.

Political commentator Einar Tangen says many of Iran’s Persian Gulf neighbors are vassal states of the US.

Political analyst says retaliatory attacks against US military bases in the region demonstrate Iran’s readiness to defend its sovereignty.