Press TV – May 22, 2026
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s intelligence arm says that following the failed attacks in June and February and the collapse of an April siege, US assumptions about the feasibility of quick and easy military action against the Islamic Republic has proven false.
The failed campaigns include Israel’s 12-day war in 2025 with direct US involvement, as well as a 50-day terrorist war waged by the US and Israel beginning on February 28, 2026. The April blockade imposed by US President Donald Trump on Iranian ports was an act of economic warfare designed to starve the nation.
“After the futile attacks of June 13 and February 28 and the collapse of the April 12 blockade, the fallacy of White House assumptions regarding a quick and easy operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran was exposed,” the IRGC Intelligence Organization said on Thursday.
“The consensus of US intelligence agencies is this: time is not on our side, and to escape a multi-layered predicament, you must take Iran’s initiative and threats seriously,” it added.
CNN on Thursday cited what it described as intelligence sources as saying that Iran is quickly rebuilding its military capabilities, including replacing missile sites and launchers, and restarting production of key weapons systems amid the six-week ceasefire with the US.
US intelligence indicates Iran’s military is reconstituting much faster than initially estimated, it said. According to the report, Iran has already restarted some of its drone production and could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as few as six months.
“The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the intelligence community had for reconstitution,” a US official told the American broadcaster.
The Iranians have “demonstrated they can effectively limit the long-term impact of the war by quickly reconstituting after those strikes,” CNN wrote.
Earlier this month, US intelligence agencies similarly revealed that Iran had regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers, and underground facilities, the New York Times reported.
The report cited classified assessments contradicting claims by President Trump that Iran’s missile capabilities had been “decimated.”
According to the report, Iran has restored operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, allowing it to target US warships attempting to transit the strategic waterway.
After the start of the war, Iran closed the strait to enemy ships, while maritime insurers drastically raised premiums for vessels wishing to transit it.
One intelligence assessment cited by the Times reportedly found that Iran still possesses 70 percent of its mobile launchers and has retained around 70 percent of its missile stockpile from before the war.
Further, satellite imagery and other surveillance tools indicated that Iran had regained access to around 90 percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities, which are either “partially or fully operational,” the report said.
> Americas repeated failures against Iran – the 12-Day War in 2025, in the campaign that commenced on Feb 28, 2026, and its inability to protect U.S. allies in the region since – mean that the days of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East are coming to a close
No. Dump hasn’t weakened shit. The army is still there. The bombs are still there. He’s “weakening” america to give his fellow tribe in europe and elsewhere the excuse to build huge armies for the war in 2030.
Look here:
“https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nato+london+tube+exercise”
That’s today’s drip feed for the war. Be afraid. Be very afraid. But do nothing.
It’s littered with intel markers too:
1. Lieutenant General Mike Elviss. Really? Elvis? Note the use of two letters for one – a common intel marker.
2. “To maintain the veil of secrecy, equipment for the command centre was transported by unmarked civilian vans to Ruislip, North London, in the early hours of the morning”. Then they wrote about it all over the internet.
3. “The British Army’s official press release makes clear that this exercise was not a one-off. The ‘underground model’ will continue to be rehearsed and developed in the UK and in Europe over the next two years, working towards the goal of establishing a mission-capable Strategic Reserves Corps by 2030.” Speaks for itself.
4. And of course, it’s littered with jews pretending to be british “army”, all telling you how big and strong they are. (It’s you and your children who are going to be killed, not them.)
I doubt I’m the only one who feels like I do, but in the past couple of weeks as the attacks on Iran stopped but will definitely start again because Netanyahu wants it, I’ve stopped thinking the news is as important to me as it used to be. The war will restart, the future is economically bleak with likely blackouts coming our way, so apart from a daily news digest – is the Iran war on again, has Starmer been ousted, has Russia flattened Kiev – that’s about all I’m interested in now.
What’s more important is being ready for it: some extra food and water, solar power for lights and to power a PC or MP3 player for evening entertainment, and hot brews on my camping stoves. I’m not giving up, I’m just accepting sh!t’s gonna happen and I cannot do anything about it. But I think I’ll handle it better than many still in denial who refuse to accept what’s coming their way.