"A former head of Venezuela’s SEBIN says a Venezuelan air force general who became ambassador to Tehran, negotiated the installation of assembly plants for Iranian strike drones in Venezuela where clandestine IRGC flights have been landing secret cargo and personnel for years to develop a capability for human stealth bombers."
. . . "Serbia’s ruling goons also lacked the terrorist zeal of Iran’s fanatical mullahs and their highly indoctrinated military caste in the IRGC. Faith in martyrdom and self-immolation runs deep in their groupthink and religious conditioning and they will rely on fear and panic as a main weapon until their last breath.
"Despite Israel’s claims of eliminating the IRGC high command as well as “replacements and the replacements of the replacements,” according to Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran’s regime remains far from dead. Islamic terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda have remained active despite repeated decapitations of its leadership and destruction of its operating bases during more than two decades.
"Israel may have complete dominance over Iranian skies, having totally neutralized Iran’s 1970s vintage air force and air defenses consisting mostly of outdated Russian S-200 SAM systems. Although a good part of Iran’s highly perfected hypersonic missiles may have been used up in daily barrages against Israel and many more destroyed by air strikes, the mullahs retained the capacity to deliver a devastating response to the weekend strikes on its nuclear facilities. The IRGC unleashed its most potent Khoramshar-4 missiles with 3,300 pound warheads, kept in reserve until now, destroying entire city blocks and a biological warfare research center in Tel Aviv.
"It’s calculated that about half of Iran’s missile launchers have been taken out but estimates vary. Israeli defense spokesmen were saying some days ago that 40 percent were destroyed while some officers claimed they had hit two thirds. The official calculations may include fixed launchers. Mobile launchers are far more difficult to target, proving elusive in past wars.
"During the 1990 Gulf War in which the U.S. led coalition had complete air dominance over Iraq as well as special forces hunting for Saddam Hussein’s Scud missiles on the ground, very few were neutralized. Iraq’s Scud launchers kept firing until hours before the armistice, when a missile hit a U.S. army outpost, killing over 20 Americans.
"A couple of hits like that on the target rich environment of U.S. bases in the Middle East would be bad television for Trump, triggering hysterical responses from Democrats and some of his own supporters fearing his entry into a new “forever war.” But the Iranians may not choose that route for the moment as it could justify more B2 raids which its military would have difficulty withstanding without material support from Russia and China. Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is flying to Moscow to meet with Putin on Monday after the deputy chairman of his security council, Dmitri Medvedev, said that “a number of countries are ready to supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.”
"An Iranian diplomat in Europe said last week that if America “fired one bullet into Iran” they would retaliate against U.S. military bases. But Iran’s response is likely to remain focused, at least for the moment, on hammering Israel, whose civilian population the Mullahs see as hostages." . . .
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