According to the Times of Israel, Leaders in both the United States and Israel have asserted that sustained military operations have severely weakened Iran’s armed forces.
According to their statements, weeks of coordinated strikes have significantly degraded Tehran’s military strength.
These attacks are also reported to have eliminated key figures at the highest levels of Iran’s leadership structure, including the country’s supreme leader, the head of its Supreme National Security Council, and several other senior military and political officials.
Further details emerged from Israeli sources on Friday, when the Israeli military announced that Ismail Ahmadi, who served as the head of intelligence for the Basij—an internal security organization—was killed in a targeted strike earlier in the week.
The same operation reportedly struck and killed additional Basij leaders, dealing another blow to Iran’s internal security apparatus.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reinforced these claims, stating that Iran’s naval forces had effectively been destroyed and that its air force was left in disarray.
He also argued that Iran’s capacity to manufacture ballistic missiles had been neutralized.
However, this particular assertion was quickly challenged by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which rejected the claim the following day.
Responding to Netanyahu’s remarks, IRGC spokesman Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini insisted that Iran’s missile program remained active despite the ongoing conflict.
“We are producing missiles even during war conditions, which is amazing, and there is no particular problem in stockpiling,” he was quoted as saying in Iran’s state-run Iran newspaper, pushing back against suggestions that the country’s weapons production capability had been crippled. Read_More…