US-Israeli War on Iran: The Numbers Game - Iranian Ballistic Missiles vs US-Israeli Air Defenses

- The US is fighting a war with Iran already, through Israel in the same manner it fights Russia through Ukraine;

- US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has reported Iran has no nuclear weapons and is not working on them to which the US president and other US officials have declared will be ignored and pursuit of war will continue;

- The war will be determined by the number of missiles Iran is able to maintain and use throughout the fighting and the depletion of US-Israel air defense systems;

- Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel itself, laying to rest war propaganda claiming Iran wants to “exterminate” the Jewish people;

References:

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Reuters - Trump calls for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' as Israel-Iran air war rages on (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-urges-tehran-evacuation-iran-israel-conflict-enters-fifth-day-2025-06-17/
CBS - Trump says he wants "real end" to Iran's nuclear program, not just an Iran-Israel ceasefire (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-real-end-iran-nuclear-program/

US Role in Israeli Military Power

BBC - Israel's smaller, sophisticated military opposes larger Iran (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lxkpekedo
ABC News - Trump tells ABC Israel strikes on Iran 'excellent' and warns 'more to come' (Jun 14, 2025):
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-tells-abc-israel-strikes-iran-excellent-warns/story?id=122807155#:~:text=A%20U.S,missiles%20targeting%20Israel.
Breaking Defense - Israel orders more Iron Dome interceptors, using new tranche of US funding (Jan 2025):
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/israel-orders-more-iron-dome-interceptors-using-new-tranche-of-us-funding/
Defense News - Israel’s Arrow 3 missile-defense sale to Germany gets US nod (Aug 17, 2023):
https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2023/08/17/israels-arrow-3-missile-defense-sale-to-germany-gets-us-nod/
Jerusalem Post - US boosts Israel defense aid by $5.2 billion for laser tech, Iron Dome, David’s Sling (Sep. 2024):
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-821919
CNN - One number could define the Iran-Israel conflict’s outcome (Jun 17, 2025):
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/middleeast/iran-israel-conflict-ballistic-missiles-analysis-intl-latam
TWZ - Israeli Airstrikes Blunt Iranian Long-Range Ballistic Missile Threat (Updated) (Jun 17, 2025):
https://www.twz.com/news-features/israeli-airstrikes-blunt-iranian-long-range-ballistic-missile-launch-capabilities
WaPo - Israel-Iran conflict may last only as long as their missiles hold out (Jun 18, 2025):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/17/israel-iran-missile-conflict/

Dismantling US-Israeli Propaganda

Jerusalem Post - Iran’s Jewish leaders call Israel strikes ‘savage Zionist aggression,’ urge ‘daily missile salvos’ (Jun 16, 2025):
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-857895
The Jewish Daily Forward - How Iran’s Jews Survive in Mullahs’ World (Aug. 2015):
https://forward.com/news/319269/irans-jews-win-secure-place-in-mullahs-world-with-strings-attached/

US Policy Papers Engineering Wars of Aggression on Iran

Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent (2009):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG781.html

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