A woman peers out from a damaged building in Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2026. Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By NEIL MacFARQUHAR After the United States and Israel went to war against Iran on Feb. 28, the U.S. military began issuing a bulletin every few days listing the number of targets hit. By Wednesday it was more…
