Iran keeps rebuilding what US and Israeli bombing break….
Experts relate that bombing attack will NOT erase all of the Iranian missile and drone capacities…
Iran KEEPS bombing Israel , getting thru the Israeli defense systems…
Israel keeps moving ahead against Hezbollah in Lebanon…
If you haven’t figured it out?
Like Russian and Ukraine….
Iran is seeking to hold on until Trump gets tired, bored and ?…Without a ‘Deal’?…Gives up like he did with Afghanistan ….
Ukraine Middle East military advisors says they are using the Russian handbook in drone ops…..
Pause?
Hegseth seems to again pursuing something different that Trump….
Possible US troops trying to grab Iran oil assets…
Something MOST people caution would NOT be feasible and result in loses of American lives…
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Five Week’s and NO end appears in site….
And Iran IS NOT giving up or agreeing to something Trump thinks he can pull off?
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Benjamin Netanyahu announced an expansion of Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon as his forces target Hezbollah. “I have just instructed to further expand the existing security buffer zone. We are determined to fundamentally change the situation in the north,” the Israeli PM said in a video statement from the Northern Command. Israeli forces are currently occupying the area south of the Litani River, and its destruction of key bridges connecting to the rest of Lebanon and forced displacement of residents have stoked fears of a protracted occupation.
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Pakistan will soon host talks between the US and Iran, its foreign minister said, as top diplomats from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt met in Islamabad to discuss ways to de-escalate the war. Neither Washington nor Tehran have yet commented.
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Earlier, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf saidIranian forces are “waiting” for US ground troops to arrive so they can “rain fire upon them”, following reports that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of possible “ground operations” in Iran, and as thousands of US soldiers and marines arrive in the region.
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Power has reportedly been restored across parts of Iran after Israeli strikes hit “electricity infrastructure”, Iran’s energy minister said.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran’s heavy-water production plant at Khondab, which Israel attacked on 27 March, has “sustained severe damage and is no longer operational”. In a post on X, the IAEA added that the Khondab Heavy Water Research Reactor “contains no declared nuclear material”. The Israeli military had described the site as a “key plutonium production site for nuclear weapons” when it bombed the facility on Friday.
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A fire at an industrial site in southern Israel has been been brought under control, hours after being declared a “hazardous materials incident” in the area. The IDF said the fire at the Neot Hovav industrial complex may have been caused by “a weapon fragment or interceptor fragment”.
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Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei thanked the Iraqi people and religious leadership for their support of Iran “in the face of aggression”, Iranian state media reported, without saying how this message was conveyed. More than three weeks on from his appointment as supreme leader, Khamenei has still not been seen or heard from in public since he was injured in the US-Israeli airstrike that killed his father, the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his wife and son on the first day of the war.
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On Palm Sunday, the Pope said God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have “hands full of blood”, in an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump’s administration….
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Four of Iran’s key ballistic missile manufacturing locations and at least 29 ballistic missile launch sites have been damaged in the first four weeks of the U.S.-Israeli offensive, undermining Iran’s central military strategy, according to a Washington Post review and analysis by experts.
Since the war began, the U.S. and Israel have conducted thousands of strikes across a range of military targets. The Post’s examination provides a comprehensive accounting of the damage to ballistic missile sites, as well as what it means for the future of the overall program.
Strikes have destroyed aboveground launching facilities, temporarily blocked access to missiles stored underground and halted Iran’s ability to immediately build new missiles, according to satellite imagery, and Iranian military and defense experts who reviewed the findings. But the experts cautioned that Iran’s ballistic missile program has not been destroyed.
“They’re still shooting. That’s a key indicator,” said Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, referring to Iran’s continued use of missiles.
Some experts said they doubted the missile program could ever be completely destroyed, citing the regime’s record of rebuilding after prior attacks and access to foreign supply chains that can replenish destroyed manufacturing equipment. Mobile missile launchers are also being used, and the number of those is unknown….
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However, many experts said this impact is likely temporary. “It seems hard to permanently knock those bases out,” said Jeremy Binnie, another analyst at Janes. “You can neutralize them in theory but Iran will just keep digging them out and repairing.”….
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Defense One...Iran is adopting Russian drone tactics, Ukrainian troops say
Iran is using Russian drone-warfare tactics to target U.S. forces and other operations in the Middle East, Ukrainian military personnel said Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Last June, Iran responded to U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities with drones and missile attacks that were largely thwarted by U.S. and Israeli defenses.
But Iranian tactics have “changed from July last year to now,” one of the visiting Ukrainian military members told a small group of former government officials, analysts, and media at the German Marshall Fund on Thursday. “Now, those tactics are very similar to the Russians we’re fighting.”
Instead of large “existential” attacks, Iran is launching smaller numbers of drones and missiles, but more often, and at a wider variety of targets—including civilian and economic infrastructure that is a lower priority for U.S. forces to protect, as documented by the Institute for the Study of War.
Tehran has largely decentralized its operations and instructed commanders to “fire at will,” ISW said. And while ISW suggests that U.S. efforts to incapacitate Iran’s missile and drone capabilities will likely work eventually, Iranian tactics have caused U.S. casualties, damaged bases, and created other disruptions.
The Ukrainian troops said this new strategy mirrors the “attrition” strategy Russia has used against Ukraine: aiming at civilian and infrastructure targets to impose economic and political costs.
ISW reported a similar finding on March 15, saying that Iran seeks to “outlast Washington rather than to militarily defeat it outright.”
The visiting Ukrainians reiterated what top E.U. officials and U.S. intelligence sources have previously stated: that Russia is providing Iran with targeting intelligence. On March 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Russia had supplied Iran with Shahed-136 drones before the U.S. and Israeli launched their surprise attacks in February….
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