The preemptive Israeli strike on Iran yesterday, which reportedly has been long and meticulously planned, was a phenomenal display of precision, effective undercover ops, crippling damage to a powerful enemy, and daring. One of the most remarkable feats of yesterday was the fact that most of the top brass in the terroristic Iranian armed forces were taken out in a single strike.
Israeli forces, which also managed to build a secret drone base in Iran, were reportedly even more successful than they had hoped. After years of Iran waging war through its proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis) against Israel, the much smaller Jewish nation certainly exacted its revenge in epic fashion.
Fox News talked to an Israeli security officer who insisted that the gathering of so many Iranian military leaders — all of them complicit in terrorist activities — conveniently in one spot was no coincidence. “We carried out specific activities to help us learn more about them, and then used that information to influence their behavior,” the officer explained to Fox. “We knew this would lead them to meet — but more importantly, we knew how to keep them there.”
The official added that the strikes were more successful than Israel had anticipated. According to the source, air defense systems and ballistic missiles that were intended for use against Israel were preemptively targeted.
Nuclear facilities have also reportedly been seriously crippled. This is significant because, though we have been told for decades now that Iran is always on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons, we really have no idea that they hadn’t succeeded in producing one — which might well have been destroyed yesterday by Israel.
Gen. Mike Flynn wrote:
[W]hen a nation’s leadership (Iran) calls for the annihilation of another nation (Israel and America), there will eventually be a price paid. I must say, Israel showed not only great restraint & patience over many years to make this monumental decision to conduct this decisive & very strategic offensive series of strikes but a level of military prowess & capability that is historically without par …
The operation began in the early morning hours of June 13, with airstrikes reported across Tehran and other cities, hitting Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear weaponization programs, and military infrastructure…Iranian media reported explosions in Tehran, with airbases closed and leadership convening to discuss retaliation. Iran’s air defenses, already weakened by prior Israeli strikes in October 2024, which destroyed all four S-300 systems, have left the country vulnerable.
Among the Iranian casualties were most of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Air Force leadership, including commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, along with Revolutionary Guard leader Gen. Hossein Salami and armed forces chief of staff Gen. Mohammad Bagheri. They have gone to join their Master below. Gholam-Ali Rashid, Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya (Emergency Command), and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Air Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are dead as well, per Townhall. Fereydoun Abbasi, former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, was reported among the casualties.
When America eliminated Iranian Quds commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020, it was rightly treated as a great victory. Israel just eliminated Soleimani’s successor, Esmail Qaani, and numerous other Iranian military leaders in one devastating blow.
On top of that, Israel also wrecked a great deal of military infrastructure and nuclear capabilities in Iran. So far no significant retaliation has occurred, and it is possible Iran couldn’t retaliate in a major way even if it wanted to after the Israeli strikes. As Flynn said, Israel displayed “military prowess & capability that is historically without par.”
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