An Iranian outlet has argued that a recent war meant to weaken Iran produced the opposite of what Washington expected. Tehran's MNA news agency wrote on October 18 that the conflict was supposed to break the country and turn Iranian society against its own political system. Instead, according to the commentary, the war strengthened national solidarity inside Iran. The agency claims the Iranian nation was the factor that frustrated American calculations. The piece frames the outcome as a direct failure of the plan to isolate the population from its leadership.