If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran ...https://x.com/mdubowitz/status/20474891266020888421. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, ...
2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. ...
3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity
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5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. ...
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7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes....
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13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz.
Iran was within a years or so of having nuclear-armed missiles that could reach all of Europe, except for Scandinavia, a large chunk of northeast Africa, and much of southwest and central Asia. Opponents of Trump's action against Iran, by default, wanted Iran to have that ability.
#7 is huge for much of the ME. As the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon, demonstrate, Iran used these proxies to do more than "just" attack Israel.
