"Epic Fury" - War with Iran - Where are we now?
Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. After President Trump declared a ceasefire had been reached, the IRGC fired upon Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. The Iran-backed Houthis fired upon Israel. President Trump stopped Israel from responding to Iran, but not Iran-backed Hezbollah.
CRITICS:
SUPPORTERS
In every speech, briefing, and official statement from President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, Secretary of State Rubio, the Joint Chiefs, and the White House, the objectives of Operation Epic Fury have been:
1. Destroy Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and production capacity
2. Annihilate its navy
3. Ensure Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon
4. End the regime’s ability to arm, fund, and direct terrorist proxies
Objectives achieved *so far*:
1) Iran's nuclear program decimated.
2) Missile production and drone production factories mostly destroyed.
3) Iran's defense industrial base, including applied sciences sites, wrecked.
4) Iran's steel production and precious petrochemical industry mostly destroyed, making it difficult to reconstitute some of the above capabilities, and making the regime poorer.
5) Iran's Navy and Airforce nearly totally obliterated.
6) Justice delivered to the mass murderers of the Iranian people.
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