When the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpile of munitions.
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But Israel has concerns about its munitions supply as well. It is still low on Arrow 3 air-defense interceptors, another U.S. official says. Israel is also low on air-launched ballistic missiles, a weapon it used to take out Iranian missile launchers this summer and to attack Hamas leaders in Qatar last year, the official said.
Jonathan Conricus, a former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces who is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said he was “underwhelmed so far by the amount of missiles that the Iranians have been able to fire.”
Assuming the US and Israel really REALLY wanted to stop this war and Iran is on course for a strategic victory, I think a peace deal looks 1st and foremost, lifting sanctions on Iran, creating a new JCPOA without snapbacks and very possibly a zionist retreat from Gaza while allowing full international support to go in.
But neither the US not Israel can be trusted to stick by any agreements. Iran is limited only by its own capacity to diminish the imperialist influence over the region directly. Agreeing to an early, “no more sanctions okay ceasefire” is likely to be followed up with (1) continued bombing by the US/Israel and (2) reintroducing sanctions within months.
Yes, but still, Iran will always try to play the UN charter card.