What Israel’s Attack On Iran Has Shown

Peloni:  There is a paper spider hiding amid the sands of the Middle East, but it resides in Tehran, and it is currently having its many paper limbs cut one by one as it now has only the desert sands and American interventions as its defense.  Indeed, the tyranny of the Mullahs which rides high over the Iranian people and the entire region, is being held secure by the Washington elites who have aided this tyranny for far too long and continue to do so.  As the Washington protection safeguarding this tyrannical regime in place is now patently transparent, we stand only days away from an election in America which will decide if the Iranians, Israelis and Middle Easterners in general will continue to be held in the grip of this barbarous regime thru the intervention of the nation previously considered to be the Leader of the Free World.  So as Americans decide if tyranny will rein in the US, it does so for the Middle East with the same vote cast.  Choose carefully.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | October 26, 2024

Israel’s attack on Ian during the early hours of October 26 was limited to military targets, as Jerusalem had promised Washington that, for now, it would not strike either nuclear facilities or the oil installations. But in destroying targets 2,000 kilometers from home, the Israeli Air Force made clear that it can without difficulty reach Tehran and hit its targets with great precision. And this strike has devastated Iran’s air defenses, thus making the country much more vulnerable in case a future Israeli strike proves necessary.

More on what this attack accomplished can be found here: “A historic humiliation: Israel’s precision strikes leave Iran defenseless – comment,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2024:

As dawn broke over Tehran on Saturday, it wasn’t the usual hum of a busy city greeting the morning.

Instead, the reverberations of precision strikes echoed across Iran’s strategic landscape. You could almost picture the startled faces behind closed doors in Iran’s power centers, scrambling to understand how Israel managed to pull off an operation so audacious, so brazen, and, yet, so meticulously calculated.

For more than three hours, Israel struck with unprecedented precision, unmasking a simple truth: Tehran, for all its bluster, isn’t untouchable….

Israel has stripped Iran of some of its military edge in a single night, leaving the so-called “regional power” scrambling for control over its narrative, like a magician left with empty hands in front of a disappointed audience.

What we’re witnessing isn’t just military strategy but also a glimpse of a new regional dynamic. Israel has drawn a line that will be felt in power corridors well beyond Tehran.

Iran now knows that the Israeli Air Force can travel 2000 kilometers over hostile territory, travel across Iranian air space, without suffering any losses, and hit with devastating precision military bases all over Iran, from the province of Tehran to the provinces of Khuzestan — where the major oilfields happen to be located, a possible future target — and Ilam. The Israeli Air Force has hit military production facilities, destroying ballistic missile and drone factories, and taken out air defense systems. The destruction of those defenses means that Iran has now been made even more vulnerable to any future IAF attack.

What can Iran now do? It has to downplay the severity of the attack, pretending that very few sites were hit, that the damage was minimal, that “only two soldiers” were killed — we may never know the real number — in order to convince its own people that so ineffectual was the Israeli strike that Iran can consider the case closed, and need not now retaliate. For the Iranians surely know that if they were now to launch another attack on Israel, no matter how unsuccessful it might be, the IDF will use that as all the justification it needs for its own retaliatory attack. And this time, the IDF will no longer be bound by its earlier promise to Biden to avoid certain targets, and will likely accomplish what Israeli generals have been itching to do, which is to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.