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The Pentagon Says the U.S. Is Achieving Its Goals, but Iran Is Fighting On
(Wall Street Journal) Alexander Ward - U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed much of Iran's leadership, sunk its navy and degraded the country's missile program in more than a month of conflict. But Tehran on Friday rejected mediated efforts to negotiate an end to the war, saying U.S. demands are unacceptable. "Their back is to the water on a beach and they don't have an escape plan, and so, literally, it's fight or die," Alan Eyre, a former U.S. diplomat who served on the delegation that negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, said of the regime. "This is the hill they die on." Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the U.S. was "ahead of schedule in accomplishing our mission."