After five and one-half months, the United States is still at war with Iran — a war that, U.S. President Donald Trump insists, is necessary to prevent Iran's Islamist regime from developing a nuclear weapon. And journalist Fred Kaplan, in the UK-based i Paper, argues that the Iran war is hurting the United States considerably from a national security/military standpoint. "With every day that President Donald Trump prolongs his war on Iran," Kaplan warns in an i Paper piece, "his country becomes weaker, in at least three ways." Kaplan goes on to lay out three reasons why the Iran war is so harmful to the U.S. militarily. The Iran war, Kaplan emphasizes, is depleting the United States' weapons supplies more and more.