IRGC inflicts heavy damage on US MQ-9 drone hangar, hits F-15 jet shelter in Jordan
Iranian missile strikes are taking a mounting toll of US radars, weapons systems and regional US military facilities and equipment
Night 10: U.S. Strikes Iran: Patriot Down, 100 Troops LOST, Trump PANICS | Scott Ritter
“Iran is going after capabilities rather than people”, says former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Intelligence officer Scott Ritter. That’s why US casualties have been relatively low. But that means that US air defence capability and ordnance stocks are also dangerously low.
Trump’s bombing campaign in Iran just sinks U.S. into a deeper quagmire
If an MOU 2.0 is put together Trump’s position will be very weak, while Netanyahu’s will be very strong. Bibi is never going to pull IDF troops out of Lebanon, and so a peace deal will be impossible, leading Trump to only one recourse: the mother of all bad ideas, which is the land invasion of Iran
Smotrich says US fighting Iran is ‘best for us’ and Israel will not join
This should serve as a long overdue wake-up call to those Americans who still support America’s “greatest ally”
US doesn’t have enough missiles to protect troops in Middle East for long-term war with Iran: experts
America’s ability to continue in a prolonged conflict could be undermined by its rapidly depleting stocks of interceptor missiles. This is all according to plan: Tehran planned for a protracted war.
Iran Destroys US MQ-9 Reaper Drones in Jordan Missile Strike: Inside the Attack That Exposed America’s Fleet-Wide Attrition Crisis
Satellite imagery reveals how Iranian missile strikes against Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base has steadily ground down America’s MQ-9 Reaper fleet. Iran is playing this long term and if it carries on much longer the US could be in serious trouble.
“If the U.S. Expands the War, Iran Will Be Forced to Strike Israel” | John Mearsheimer
It looks like the Iranians don’t want to draw Israel back into the war, says John Mearsheimer. They have enough as it is dealing with the US. That’s why Iran has seemingly little interest in attacking Israel, and Netanyahu is happy to let the US do the fighting
Iran’s military: Any US attack on nuclear sites amounts to ‘expansion of war,’ entails widespread reprisal
Will the US take heed, or will it follow through on its threat, as Iran retaliates against more high value US targets?
Pentagon concealed dozens of casualties from Iranian strikes in Jordan: Report
We suspect that this is a ‘limited hangout’. US casualties, which the New York Times claimed amount to “dozens injured” and “several” damaged helicopters, are probably far heavier
IRGC conducts high-fatality, destructive strikes on regional US targets, thanks Jordanians
Iran thanks members of the Jordanian public for providing targeting intelligence, which enabled them to destroy “20 hangars used to station troops of the child-killing US military”, and kill dozens of US service personnel and hit a US C-17 transport aircraft and a P-8 command-and-control aircraft.
Trump has no good escalation options left against Iran
Trump has few options left. He can put boots on the ground for a limited ground incursion, or alternatively as he recently warned, he can start targeting Iranian civil infrastructure. Neither option will help Trump in the coming midterm elections
IRGC air defense downs MQ-9 drone over western Iran
Adding to the growing toll wrought by Iranian air defences on US drones