...t military operations.The Iranians have developed five courses of action to force the United States and Israel to end the war: #drone and ballistic missile attacks to harm Americans and Israelis in the Persian Gulf; drone, missile and naval attacks, including mining, to disrupt shipping in the Persian Gulf; attacks using proxies such as the Lebanese Hezbollah and others pro-Iranian groups; global operations and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.The joint U.S.-Israeli campaign has fo...
...cused on urgently ending drone attacks, ballistic missiles, and traditional naval attacks, as these tools are Iran's most important tools for implementing its strategy.Unmanned aerial and naval vehicles continue to pose a threat to the shipping and oil production infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, and the danger of Iran mining the Strait remains urgent, albeit complex.The joint campaign of the United States and Israel, aimed at stopping missile and drone attacks as quickly as possible, ha...
...s successfully reduced the level of attacks on US partners and their interests in the region. The joint campaign launched these efforts on the first day of the campaign and gradually reduced Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones.A senior Israeli military official said Israel had destroyed or disabled 260 to 290 missile launchers out of an estimated 410-440 such launchers. According to Israeli intelligence, the Iranian missile forces also suffer from low morale, cases of desertion an...
...d disobedience of orders.The campaign also targets drone launch pads, but the United States and Israel have not provided information on the number or types of targets the drones have targeted. However, since the beginning of the war, launches of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones have gradually decreased.Some individual drones managed to penetrate the air defense systems and cause politically unacceptable damage to the oil infrastructure, but the overall trend of attacks is very positive.