ZeroHedge: Iran Scrambling To Restore Bombed Missile Bunkers Within Hours After Being Struck
Iran Scrambling To Restore Bombed Missile Bunkers Within Hours After Being Struck
And now US intelligence has freshly assessed that Iranian personnel are busy excavating bombed underground missile bunkers and silos and restoring them to operation within a mere hours of US and Israeli strikes.
The New York Times on Friday featured American intelligence analysis saying that Tehran has retained a substantial number of missiles and mobile launchers, raising serious doubts on how close Washington actually is to eliminating the Islamic Republic’s missile capability.
The report states that Washington cannot determine how many launchers have been destroyed because Iran has deployed decoys. Underground bunkers and silos may appear damaged, but launchers are rapidly recovered from rubble and returned to use through the quick work of excavators and heavy equipment.
Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, has painted a rosy picture from the Pentagon’s point of view: “Here are the facts: Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks are down 90 percent, their navy is wiped out, two-thirds of their production facilities are damaged or destroyed, and the United States and Israel have overwhelming air dominance over Iran,” she said.
A senior Western official in the NY Times stated that Iran is firing approximately 15-30 ballistic missiles and 50-100 suicide drones per day across the region.
US officials additionally told the Times that Iran aims to preserve as much of its missile-launch capability as possible to sustain its threat posture throughout the conflict and after it ends.
Some of the remaining launchers are currently inaccessible, buried under rubble from repeated airstrikes, but there’s the expectation that Iran will race to dig them out. NYT further cites the following:
Haaretz, the Israeli publication, reported earlier that Iran had used bulldozers to dig out missile launchers that had been buried, or “corked,” in underground bunkers.
President Trump and US planners around him probably didn’t expect the Islamic Republic to put up as much of a fight as it’s still able to do this many weeks into Operation Epic Fury.
Iranian missiles have continued to wreak havoc across Israel especially, with citizens spending many hours each day huddled in shelters, especially in central Israel and Tel Aviv.
Anti-Zionist Jew Jay Shapiro wants to know whether “Professor” Jiang denies the Holocaust, which Jiang denies, though he adds that, based on his own research, he has found no convincing evidence of a genocide that was planned well in advance and carried out on an industrial scale.
Shapiro points out that striped prison uniforms and “gas chambers” are sufficient evidence, but admits that his ethnic community claims exclusive authority over interpreting who were the true and only victims of World War II, a claim he rejects.
Jiang’s video “Civilization #54: The German Will to Power” that, in the eyes of the censors, makes him a “Holocaust denier” is blocked in many countries outside the United States. And as if by magic, the reference to it has disappeared from his Wikipedia article as of today.
Mr. Shapiro does not appear “Jewish” in phenotype or demeanor, which makes him likable; perhaps he is half-Jewish or a quarter-Jewish. On his channel, he questions the “chosenness” of the Jews in numerous conversations, often in dialogue with a prominent Jew as his counterpart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oErKnj_uyPA