Plumes of smoke rise over the oil depot tanks hit by joint Israel-U.S. over night in a station north west of the capital on March 8, 2026 in Tehran. Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images If you go by Donald Trump’s account, he has already won the war with Iran several times over. Iran’s regime is pleading for the opportunity to capitulate, collapsing from within, and confronting the imminent, possibly explosive, demise of its oil industry. Final victory for the US in its historic confrontation with the Islamic Republic is assured and, perpetually, mere days away.  In reality, there is no indication that the Iranian regime is crumbling. Five days after Trump claimed Iran had just three days left until its oil infrastructure “explodes from within,” presumably from the pent-up pressure of all the exports thwarted by the US naval blockade, zero oil wells have exploded.…