How Did Iran Lose the War So Shockingly Quickly? | RFU News

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Here, in a war Tehran once promised would reshape the region, the only thing reshaped is Iran’s own military; flattened, blinded, and humiliated in a matter of days. With both its offensive and defensive capabilities shattered beyond repair, Iran now scrambles not for victory, but for a way out.

In the opening hours of the Israeli operation against Iran, it became immediately clear that Iran’s air defense network was utterly insufficient to repel an attack from a modern and well-prepared adversary. Already weakened by previous Israeli strikes, Iranian air defenses were systematically dismantled in a series of swift, precision attacks spearheaded by Israeli F-35 stealth fighters. Iran's regime claimed to have downed four such jets, yet the evidence provided was quickly debunked as embarrassingly obvious Photoshop manipulations. In reality, Israeli aircraft rapidly dominated western Iranian airspace, freely operating even over Tehran itself, an unprecedented humiliation. The Iranian Air Force was also quickly neutralized with Israeli planes striking Iranian jets directly on their runways and systematically targeting radar installations, leaving Iran’s air force unable to respond or put up resistance against Israeli airpower.