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Ah, but I'm not out there writing articles claiming that "The strategy....is working." Right? If you're saying, "the strategy...might end up working if certain things happen," then that's far more defensible. But the author of that piece has no more idea than I do about where the material is or what the status of it is - so he has no real basis to claim that the strategy is actually working.Hmm. That all depends on how we want to define "strategy". You're narrowing it down to only the nuclear component but the broader plan has always been about Iranian power projection across the region...and that certainly is being degraded severely.
-Their Navy is done
-No more Air Force
-They're running out of ballistic missiles
-Their having trouble launching drones
-The Air Force blew up a bunch of their anti-ship missiles this morning
...and now we're gunning for their production facilities for missiles and drones. We also continue to whack specific regime figures, as in this morning where Esmail Khatib (Iran's intelligence chief) met his maker.
This is a process, and the US and Israel are methodically working their way through it.
That article was "rushing to pass judgment" and declare that the entire thing "is working". Again, present tense. I'm pointing out that's not correct - if we're going to pass judgment on how things are going at the present moment, it's hard to see any strategic goal that we've accomplished that was worth the cost.That's certainly one way to look at it. Not the way I look at it. It's very fair to say "it's work
ing" while thing is still in progress when it's obvious in the kills we're chalking up and the equipment of theirs that we're blowing up is highly measureable.
Oh, then there's this:
The Journal reviewed the contents of one call between a senior Iranian police commander and an agent of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign-intelligence service.
“Can you hear me?” a Mossad agent can be heard, speaking in Farsi. “We know everything about you. You are on our blacklist, and we have all the information about you.”
“OK,” the commander said in the recording.
“I called to warn you in advance that you should stand with your people’s side,” the Mossad agent said. “And if you will not do that, your destiny will be as your leader. Do you hear me?”
“Brother, I swear on the Quran, I’m not your enemy,” the commander said. “I’m a dead man already. Just please come help us.”https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-...Bwahahahahahaha. As I said, they're working their way down the list. Amazing how it works when the other side knows all the bad things you do and has you on a list how some of these guys suddenly lose enthusiasm for The Cause.
