Iran’s last weapon
Iran has delivered a sweeping set of demands that the United States must meet before the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened to maritime traffic. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been fighting a war with the Great Satan, America, and the Little Satan, Israel, for 46 years.
Iran’s most powerful strategy has been to use proxies and drones. The proxies are on life support, but not their drones. They are able to keep the Gulf destabilized with these drones and also hit American bases, despite the fact that the US and Israel have neutralized more than 90% of those missiles.
Bombing bridges and power plants is not the answer. It will only hurt the Persian people who are crying out for freedom.
Why isn’t Iran attacking Israel?
To understand what is happening, one must ask a simple question: Why is Iran not attacking Israel?
The answer is that Israel fought one of the first true drone wars involving a great power. But what Israel did that was most effective was target Iranian leadership, such as Razi Mousavi, senior IRGC general and overseer of Syrian-Iran military coordination; Mohammad Reza Zahedi, IRGC Quds Force commander for Lebanon and Syria; Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader; Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council; Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the Basij internal security forces; Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC Navy; and dozens, if not hundreds, of other Iranian leaders.
Iran is not attacking Israel because Israel targeted the top leadership of Iran, primarily through drone warfare. Cutting off the head of the snake is the key to keeping those snakes from procreating.
Trump has broken Iran’s war machine
What Donald Trump has achieved in the Iran war is astonishing, despite the liberal, godless media attacking him and claiming he has failed. Iran’s nuclear backbone has been broken, and its war machine is in shambles.
The next phase of the war does not have to be a major military operation. Quite the contrary, the US has the largest inventory of advanced drones in the world, but needs to manufacture 10 times that amount.
Iran’s only power left is its drones. They are trying to smuggle more of those fiber-optic drones to Hezbollah through Syria and Iraq and hit US bases in Iran, Kuwait, and Jordan.
The new battlefield: Drones and cyberwarfare
During Operation Roaring Lion-Epic Fury, Israel simultaneously executed the largest cyberattack in history, knocking Iran’s Internet down to roughly 4 percent of normal capacity and creating a nationwide digital fog that disrupted government services, media, energy, and infrastructure. All of this was coordinated to precede and support the kinetic strikes, including hacking state TV and jamming GPS.
The US needs to adopt the same long-term strategy with Iran. Iran will continue using its drones because there are too many of them, they are too well hidden, and they are too inexpensive. The FPV drones cost as little as $300 and are 3D-printed by Hezbollah. They have become the single deadliest weapon against Israeli troops in Lebanon.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has launched a drone dominance program, calling for over 300,000 small, one-way strike drones to be fielded across the services by 2028. The Army has announced plans to get up to 1 million drones.
The Strait of Hormuz cannot be ignored
The Strait of Hormuz, a 21-mile waterway, cannot be protected sufficiently with air and naval power alone because of Iranian drones.
Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is about the size of a king-size mattress. That drone has a range of 500 miles and costs between $20,000 and $35,000 to produce. Iran has thousands of them.
Iran is a very big country, one and a half times the size of California. Those drones can be anywhere. They can be underground, they can be in crevices, and they can be hidden in the mountains.
Defeat the drones by hunting the snake
The question is: How do you defeat Iran’s drones?
You defeat them with our own drones, but you do it the same way the Israelis have done it. It’s not a big military operation. It’s a smaller operation targeting Iranian leadership.
You can be sure of one thing: It will be successful. Israel has already proven it. That’s why Iran is not striking Israel.
Iranian leadership cannot and will not continue down its apocalyptic path if it realizes it is going to cost them their lives.
They brag about wanting 72 virgins, but the US can give them 72 Virginians: American young warriors with the backbone of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln, using the most advanced AI-driven technology to target these devils.
Forcing them to feel the heat until they see the light is going to take patience and time. But ultimately, the Islamic Nazi regime can be defeated. And when it is, the Persian people will rise up like lions to take back their country.
The writer has written 120 books, is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is the founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, the Ten Boom Museum in Holland, and Churches United with Israel, one of the largest Christian Zionist networks in America.
