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Iran speaks back to Trumpian nightmare

Tue 7:34 am +00:00, 7 Apr 2026

posted by Tapestry

New Statement from Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei:

🔸The American-Zionist enemy has resorted to its usual weapon of Zionist terrorism and the assassination of one of the commanders of the country’s intelligence and security community.

🔸However, the steadfast ranks of the fighters and warriors on the path of truth and justice in Islamic Iran and the self-sacrificing armed forces form such a tall and solid foundation that terrorism and crime cannot undermine their ideals.

🔸It is a pity… that they are beating the drum of war, threats, and destruction more and more every day, while international institutions remain silent and indifferent, and perhaps even complicit in the aggression, becoming partners in the flaming of this fire.🇮🇷

Marandi fleshes out what the Leader means by this.

Brian Berletic at The New Atlas gives more background into the failure to project power by US forces during the extraction programme due toloss of critical air support.

The New Atlas 1 hour ago

US/IRAN – US Op in Iran Involving C-130s, MH-6, and A-10s Was Likely Offensive Turned Disaster By F-15/A-10 Losses.

Back in 2023 Wyoming media reported on special operations training along a highway involving exactly the sort of operation reported on deep inside Iran – involving landing C-130s, disembarking MH-6 helicopters to “project power” deep inside enemy territory.

Read the whole article here: https://wyotoday.com/news/history-mad…

It is possible such an operation could be launched in support of search and rescue – but the fact it was primarily developed to project power as part of the wider “agile combat employment” (ACE) opens the possibility that this was a special forces operation that either went bad or was compromised by the loss of aircraft providing air support, and ended up as a costly search and rescue operation before ending.

In the article Lt. Col. Dave Meyer was quoted as saying: “An adversary that may be able to deny use of a military base or an airfield, is going to have a nearly impossible time trying to defend every single linear mile of roads. It’s just too much territory for them to cover and that gives us access in places and areas that they can’t possibly defend.” The article also claimed: “Exercise Agile Chariot tested the concept of Agile Combat Employment (ACE)—an operational scheme of maneuver executed within threat timelines to enhance survivability while generating combat power—through two demonstrations, as well as Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP), Integrated Combat Turnarounds and the infiltration and exfiltration of Air Force Special Operations (AFSOC) personnel with US Army Special Ops Aviation Command (USASOAC).”

Some of the participating units do specialize in search and rescue like the 123rd special tactics squadron but not exclusively and do carry out other roles in offensive operations. It is likely no coincidence the US military was practicing in terrain similar to Iran’s for operations they knew they’d carry out in Iran as far back as 2023 – as I have repeatedly explained – this war is not about “Israel tricking the US into war,” but the US waging a war it had prepared for for decades regardless of who is president and what rhetoric he told before elections…

Marandi says that Iran wants the US to attack as they have prepared for this war for decades as well.