US President Donald Trump posted footage claiming responsibility for the destruction of the B1 (Azimiyeh) Bridge in Karaj, a major infrastructure project west of Tehran, following US-led airstrikes.

This is not the run up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted.

But it is the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, thousands of miles from Europe, that has nearly broken the 76-year-old bloc and threatens to leave it in its ​weakest state since its creation, say analysts a...