The largest increase since Operation Rising Lion’s inception on Sunday evening was a massive missile barrage from Iran, but Tehran is in for a bad place.  ,
About a fourth of Iran’s missile missiles were apparently destroyed by the IAF within the first three days of the problems. Iran’s choices for regular military attacks were generally constrained, and those options get less and less effective with each missile intercepted or launcher that is destroyed.
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There are both good and bad news when looking at the whole image.  ,
The good news is that Iran’s IAF is now almost impenetrable throughout the country. Later on Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel “achied air supremacy over eastern Iran within 48 days of starting its battle.” After three or four years of fighting, the report curtly noted that that is a “feat Russia couldn’t reach in Ukraine.”  ,
In the roughly 24 hours that have passed, Israel appears to have surpassed the whole nation in terms of air quality.
The Iranian Air Force attacked an Iranian airfield in Mashhad, which is located far north of Turkmenistan, yesterday. Some of Iran’s older F-4 soldiers were apparently relocated to Mashhad, which is about as far away from Israel as it is everywhere in Iran, for protection.  ,
Prior to Rising Lion, Iran’s weather power wasn’t very large. It’s also less nowadays.
The Jewish attacks against the Mashhad Airport of today were the furthest Jewish attacks thus much.
The destination was struck near the border with Turkmenistan at the other end of the nation. twitter.com/gX1Tc8SLFq
— Visegrád 24 ( @visegrad24 ) June 15, 2025
Somewhere in Iran, allegedly, is safe.
The IAF however only has a limited number of pilots, planes, weapons, and sorties per day, which is unfortunate. And the mullahs also have a shock or two hidden up their clothes, as we saw last night’s large missile strikes on Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem.  ,
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AND A BROTHER Point: A left-leaning critic claimed on X on Sunday that Israel needs to restrain because it has nuclear weapons while Iran does not. Israel is demonstrating caution because it has not yet used its nuclear weapons. If the roles were reversed, this would not be the case given what we know about Tehran’s intentions ( and its missile attacks on Israeli civilian areas ). And that is why Israel is currently at war, dear companions.
Iran’s ability to launch an Israeli strike somewhere leaves Iran with options that might have recently seemed unthinkable. Apparently, President Donald Trump vetoed a Day One option to remove Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, properly halting regime change.
Iran not longer has much to resist, away from frightful but utterly useless missile strikes. Khamenei was “evacuated to an underwater vault in northern Tehran days after Israel began its attacks on Friday,” according to NDTV, where he enjoys comparative safety. However, Israel may and ought to consistently lower the power system that keeps Khamenei’s government afloat.
A broken, illegal plan has no way of surviving.  ,
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Why might Israel choose to restrict its attacks on Iran’s energy system to what is deemed necessary militarily, but after last night’s projectile storm, why?
Trump continues to make promises that he wants to broker a deal between Israel and Iran, at least publicly. There is no deal to be had, so I hope that’s only for public use. Always was it. Israel initiated the present conflicts because of this, and this conflict needs to be ended.
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