In a brief interview, he said the country’s hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public.
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WEICHERT: Another issue is the attempted ballistic missile strikes on the carrier. I’m still confirming, but satellite photos of Bandar Abbas show one Fateh class diesel electric sub missing. In 25 years of war games, the U.S. Navy has not always detected diesel electric boats within torpedo range of a carrier.
BANNON: Iran is hitting Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, even Saudi Arabia. What’s the strategy? Can they choke off oil through the Strait of Hormuz? FENNELL: Just declaring the Strait closed cut traffic. AIS tracking dropped immediately. Now 150 to 200 tankers are waiting south of the Strait. That will spike oil. We’re also seeing leadership decapitation, command and control degraded. Their response looks sporadic, not coordinated, while U.S. strikes continue and flight ops go on.
GAFFNEY: This won’t be over tmr. I mourn the loss of 3 American servicemen. Will we take more casualties? Of course there will. This is likely to be a hard slog. BANNON: I’m going to be brutally frank. If it’s a hard slog, that was not pitched in the 2024 campaign. We’re going to bleed support.
POSOBIEC: We’re seeing the Iranian response as U.S. and Israeli strikes continue. Iran is waging asymmetric warfare, hitting tankers, oil platforms, Dubai, Jebel Ali, and Gulf partners to pressure the U.S. to sue for peace.
BANNON: How concerned are you that a diesel boat could slip out of the Straits of Hormuz and threaten the strike group? CAPT FANELL: Iran has 28 to 30 subs. Not a surprise they’d try. But Lincoln has had air and sea supremacy for weeks, with escorts watching the undersea domain. They can try. That’s war. So far, nothing close to our carriers.
The U.S. and Israel originally planned to attack Iran a week earlier than they did, but the opening strike was delayed for operational and intelligence reasons, according to senior U.S. and Israeli officials. Why it matters: The delay gave President Trump another week to choose between the two parallel tracks — diplomacy and war — he had been walking for nearly two months. - It also made the final round of nuclear talks in Geneva far more consequential, giving Iran one last chance to make a deal. Behind the scenes: After the second round of U.S.-Iran talks ended without significant progress on Feb. 17, U.S. and Israeli military planners were preparing to launch strikes four days later — on Saturday, Feb. 21. - But the go-ahead…
The U.S. and Israel originally planned to attack Iran a week earlier than they did, but the opening strike was delayed for operational and intelligence reasons, according to senior U.S. and Israeli officials. Why it matters: The delay gave President Trump another week to choose between the two parallel tracks — diplomacy and war — he had been walking for nearly two months. - It also made the final round of nuclear talks in Geneva far more consequential, giving Iran one last chance to make a deal. Behind the scenes: After the second round of U.S.-Iran talks ended without significant progress on Feb. 17, U.S. and Israeli military planners were preparing to launch strikes four days later — on Saturday, Feb. 21. - But the go-ahead…Open
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