A.G.Koster 🇳🇱
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🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump said “No” when asked if he would rule out sending U.S. ground forces into Iran. Source: The Hill
🇺🇸🇮🇷 How much is one American life worth? Yesterday, the U.S. military answered that question on Iranian soil. Priceless. Two MC-130J special ops aircraft landed deep inside Iran to extract the injured F-15 pilot and rescue team. Both became stuck in the soft desert ground south of Isfahan. With Iranian forces closing in, the U.S. made the only decision they could: blow them up, rather than allow Iran to capture them. Each MC-130J costs over $100 million. Four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters used in the mission were also intentionally destroyed, and three additional aircraft had to fly into Iran to complete the extraction. Iran claimed they shot them down. But they said the same thing in 2011 when Navy SEALs blew up a Black Hawk chopper during the bin Laden raid. The rescue succeeded. Both crew members are safe. The colonel who evaded Iranian forces for two days in the Zagros Mountains while wounded is alive. The aircraft are gone. The pilots are home. Worth it. Source: WSJ, NYT
‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 BIG | When people ask the rhetorical question of how the U.S. could seize Iranian islands around the Strait of Hormuz during a potential ground operation, just look at yesterday’s unbelievable, “Hollywood-style blockbuster” special operation deep inside Iran. To evacuate a single American pilot, hundreds of special forces personnel, along with dozens of transport helicopters and aircraft, were deployed into a combat mission supported by U.S. strike aviation. The mission was successfully completed within hours without fatalities (several soldiers were injured, but none were killed). Despite the fact that Iranian forces had a top-priority target on their own territory, and all components of their military (special operations forces, artillery, drones, cruise missiles, and man-portable air defense systems) were concentrated on locating that target — the pilot — with the aim of later using him for political leverage against the United States, they were unable to counter U.S. air dominance. According to reports, hundreds of fighters from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij special operations units were eliminated during the operation. 🔹 In a similar but much larger-scale scenario, with overwhelming air support, U.S. ground forces would land on the islands surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian tube and rocket artillery, as well as anti-ship cruise missiles, would likely prove just as ineffective as their “maximum effort” to capture the pilot — meaning they would be neutralized before being able to act or launch under continuous aerial surveillance. The only real threat to forces involved in such a ground operation would come from Iranian operators hidden in shelters (bunkers, caves), who could potentially employ fiber-optic FPV kamikaze drones with a range of 30–35 km, possibly with Russian support on the ground. See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231
President Donald J. Trump delivers a message on Holy Week ✝️ 'Happy Easter to all, may God bless you, may God bless the United States of America.'
