Behnam Ben Taleblu
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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against the regime's missile and drone forces and against the whole host of military industries that support them.
But nonetheless, that's the one where I see the president most clearly being able to hang his hat on for a military victory.
And I think the Islamic Republic is keen to prevent us from getting a political victory.
Well, the challenge is unless you count local sources, Persian language government sources, Western English language reporting, and of course, commercially available satellite imagery.
And even with that cocktail, you get some different answers.
Unless you count all of that stuff and weighed heavily against the silence from USG on the numbers, the number of launchers, the number of medium range ballistic missiles versus short range, the various rationales for the drops in Iranian firepower, the various rationales where despite
really losing senior figures in terms of command and control, why the IRGC is still able to shoot and still shoot effectively, I might say.
You don't really get to be able to answer that question honestly or thoroughly or as I would like.
You get really a jigsaw puzzle approach to it instead.
So I do think that there is success.
There's been quite a bit of military success.
It's just hard to measure at this point in time because even, for example, the number of how many ballistic missiles does Iran have or did Iran have?
has been such a political football ever since former CENTCOM Chief General McKinsey entered the number 3,000 into the public domain about five, six years ago.
There's debates over how much does an Iranian ballistic missile cost, anywhere from $200,000 to $3 million.
There's been debates about how many launchers Iran has versus how much they rebuilt post the 12-day war.
The Israelis said for the 400 plus launchers Iran had that they took about a third of them in the 12-day war.
Now they're saying about two-thirds of them.
The US government is relatively silent on the number of launchers, but the videos they put out had to show them striking a heck of a lot of launchers.
There's a lot more questions than answers here when it comes to the numbers.
And what we have to do as open source watchers
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