{"id":327261,"date":"2026-05-23T04:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327261"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:03:22","slug":"irgc-intelligence-us-assumptions-of-easy-and-quick-operation-against-iran-proven-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327261","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Intelligence: US assumptions of ‘easy and quick’ operation against Iran proven false"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 May 22, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Islamic Revolution\u00a0Guards 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\u00a0proven false.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The failed campaigns include Israel’s 12-day war in 2025 with direct US involvement, as well as a 50-day terrorist war\u00a0waged by the US\u00a0and 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.<\/p>\n

“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,”\u00a0the IRGC Intelligence Organization said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“The consensus of US\u00a0intelligence 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.<\/p>\n

CNN on Thursday cited what it described as intelligence sources as saying that\u00a0Iran 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.<\/p>\n

US intelligence indicates Iran\u2019s military is reconstituting much faster than initially estimated, it said. According to the report,\u00a0Iran has already restarted some of its drone production and could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as few as six months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranians have exceeded all timelines the intelligence community\u00a0had for reconstitution,\u201d a US official told the American broadcaster.<\/p>\n

The Iranians have \u201cdemonstrated they can effectively limit the long-term impact of the war by quickly reconstituting after those strikes,” CNN wrote.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, US intelligence agencies similarly revealed that Iran had regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers, and underground facilities, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

The report cited classified assessments contradicting claims by President Trump that Iran\u2019s missile capabilities had been \u201cdecimated.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the report, Iran has\u00a0restored 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.<\/p>\n

After the start of the war, Iran closed the strait to enemy ships,\u00a0while maritime insurers drastically raised premiums for vessels wishing to transit it.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cpartially or fully operational,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americas repeated failures against Iran \u2013 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 \u2013 mean that the days of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East are coming to a close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":254215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327262,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327261\/revisions\/327262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}