What the Media Isn't Telling You: The Iran-Israel Proxy War

Mehdi sits down with two actual Iran experts to discuss the side of the war that mainstream media didn ’ t show. What do Iranians think about their country’s war with the US and Israel ? What is the mood on the streets of the Islamic Republic after Donald Trump’s ceasefire went into effect? The lack of a meaningful response from the so-called “ Axis of Resistance” to the Israel - Iran war reveals how exhausted it is after months of fighting the United States and Israel. 6 days ago · Iran ’s strategy for gaining hegemony in the Middle East consists of three main components: the nuclear project, the ballistic missile program, and the maintenance of a network of proxy political. A Houthi missile hit central Israel , highlighting an ongoing multi-front war involving Iranian proxies like Hezbollah. With escalating threats on all borders and strained US relations over Gaza strategy, Israel faces strategic dilemmas. We’ve seen well over a dozen AI-generated or miscaptioned videos and images circulating widely on social media as the Israel - Iran conflict continues. Both countries have launched multiple strikes against each other following Israel ’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites on 13 June 2025. Since 2003, US Army has conducted an analysis called TIRANNT (Theater Iran Near-Term) for a full-scale war with Iran . At the turn of the 2010s, the US and Israel deployed the Stuxnet virus, the world’s first offensive cyber weapon, to destroy almost a fifth of Iran ’s nuclear centrifuges. Iran ’ s proxy fought an overt , aggressive war against Israel in broad daylight with Iranian missiles and Iranian fanaticism, and yet somehow, they seem to have won the public diplomacy.