Ben Meiselas

Then you had Moshin Razi, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander and senior Iranian official, posted the following.

America, just as it suffered a historic defeat against Iran in failing to open the Strait of Hormuz, is also doomed to failure in its maritime blockade.

Iran's armed forces will not grant America such permission again.

and possesses major untapped levers for countering it.

Iran is not a place to be blockaded with tweets and fanciful schemes.

Again, mocking the Trump regime as being a paper tiger social media account as opposed to a viable international power.

Again, humiliating for the United States that that's what we've been reduced to.

Even the New York Post is reporting.

I mean, that's a Murdoch paper.

Majority of Iran's fast attack ships remain patrolling the Strait of Hormuz and are still intact.

Yes, a majority of Iran's naval fast ships patrolling the Strait of Hormuz are intact.

And as Patricia Marins writes, and she's been very good on these issues,

She writes, repeating what I said a few days ago, Iran still has at least 30 patrol ships equipped with missiles and torpedoes, plus hundreds of other fast boats also equipped with missiles and some classes with torpedoes.

Hundreds more boats have rocket launchers, many of which have already received guidance kits.

It is said that Iran can operate up to 4,000 fast boats.

I estimate at least 1,500 of which 300 to 350 are armed with missiles.

Recapping,

The already devastated Iranian Navy still operates around 30 patrol ships, 300 to 350 missile boats, and about 18 to 22 submariners and many submariners.

And that doesn't even factor in the unmanned vessels, those underwater drones that have been used before by the Iranians.

And we saw, you know, in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, these unmanned vessels have been used a lot as well.