As you are probably aware, this weekend Israel made good on its promise to answer Iran’s attack on Israel last month,
How did it work out?
From Stephen Green’s article at pjmedia.com, we have this assessment:
Reports are that somewhere between one-third and one-half of the IAF took to the skies on Friday night — a remarkable feat in itself if you know anything about what it takes to ready and arm a sophisticated warplane — and every single one of them returned home safely.
An open-source intelligence writer who uses the handle Raylan Givens — I’ve followed and trusted him for a couple of years now — gave the rundown on the operation, “courtesy of IDF Radio and with the approval of the military censor.”
“The attack destroyed ALL of Iran’s long-range surface-to-air missile batteries,” according to Givens’ translation of the IDF Radio report. “All long-range detection radars were also destroyed. Iran is left with only short-range batteries of local Iranian models.”
Again bowing to Western pressure, Israel left Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities intact, but the IAF brutalized Iran’s missile production sites. While “Iran possesses more than 2,000 long-range ballistic missiles,” by most estimates, “the production of new missiles was crippled. From now on, Iran will operate with a finite supply because the stockpile it has will not be able to grow for months or years.”
Is this true?
If so – and I assure you I am avidly rooting for that to be the case – Israel has done itself, and the rest of the world, very much including its Arab neighbors – a huge favor. A monumental one.
Given its severely debilitated state, how can Iran retaliate? And even if it can, would it, knowing it leaves the country open to Israel’s next step – which, it seems self-evident, would be the oil fields left intact this weekend?
The murderous terrorists of Tehran are clearly between a rock and a hard place now. If they do nothing, it exposes them as helpless losers only capable of paying for others to do what they can’t. If they do something, Israel clearly has the capacity to take out their method of paying those others, not to mention financing the country itself.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
