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US ​Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday ​that the United States has had a decisive military victory over Iran and that Tehran's missile ​program ‌has been functionally destroyed. But is this claim true? Have Iran's military capabilities been completely destroyed? And even if the US has achieved a military victory, has it achieved a strategic one? France 24's Kethevan Gorjestani takes a look.

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