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Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-humiliation-of-iran/
Iran Has Been Proven to Be a Paper Tiger
(Spectator-UK) Yossi Melman - IDF war planners have planned to strike Iran for years, but always feared the worst-case scenario: downed planes, pilots captured, and Israeli citizens hung as spies in Tehran's central squares. On Saturday, more than 60 U.S.-made F-35, F-16, and F-15s, accompanied by Boeing mid-air fueling planes and early warning air intelligence aircraft, with 150 Israeli air crew, flew 1,600 km. for two hours, passing over Syria and Iraq, and entered Iranian air space. Within three hours, with precision guided missiles, they hit 20 targets in five regions across Iran, including near Tehran, the first time since the Iran-Iraq war in 1988 that a strike has hit the outskirts of Tehran. The ramifications are enormous. Iran, for all its rhetoric, has been proven to be a paper tiger. It will take at least two years for its anti-aircraft defenses to be resupplied by Russia. Until that happens, Iran is blind, deaf and has been humiliated. Israel has once again proven its aerial and intelligence superiority. Israel has sent a clear message to Iranian leaders that it knows about Iran's military bases, its headquarters, air defense systems, missile depots, and command-and-control centers. Iran's leaders and much of the public know this as well. Their secrets are an open book to Israeli and American intelligence, which have been collaborating and devising plans against the Islamic regime for years.