🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran told mediators that if the US strikes again it will try to sink American warships, kill their crews, and hit airports and pipelines across every Gulf state
The threats went through diplomatic channels as well as state TV, and the Journal’s sources say they’re backed by hundreds to thousands of ballistic missiles plus limited new production in underground plants.
Tehran did the first version of this in March, wrecking Fifth Fleet headquarters, a Qatari gas plant and airports in three countries, and its September missiles came close to US ships.
The Pentagon says it destroyed 90% of Iran’s missile and drone industry.
Iran just appointed the father of its ballistic program as defense minister.
Those two facts don’t both get to be the whole story, and with interceptor stocks already drained on every side, the fleet sailing in for November is the one that unfortunately finds out which is closer to true…
Source: WSJ / Writer: Daniel