US/Israel war on Iran has now entered into its 39th day. There are reports of US and Israel bombing Iran’s cities, universities, hospitals, bridges and energy plants, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, water desalination plants etc. Iran has also bombed various parts of Israel through its missiles, US military bases spread in all the Arab neighbouring countries. There is an absolute media ban in Israel to show any destruction as well as in United Arab Emirates, one of the frontline nations against Iran.
Pentagon Purges: Generals Fired Amid Strategy Disputes
US war minister Pete Hegseth has made Randy George and David Hodne join the growing list of generals being fired. This leaves very little doubt of the heightened tensions within UP President Donald Trump’s Department of War. The move has raised concerns among military leaders about its potential impact on the conflict and highlighted tensions between the Pentagon chief and senior military leadership.
General Randy George has stepped down from his position as the Army Chief of Staff, while two other Army officials-General David Hodne of the Army’s Transformation and Training Command and Major General William Green of the Army’s Chaplain Corps**-were also dismissed in the purge, with the Pentagon citing the need for a leadership change. Any strategic analyst can make out that George and Hodne as ‘flag officers’ were fired, which as per Axios due to disagreements over where the US army is headed. US is planning to send troops to Kharg island in Iran, which hosts the biggest Iran’s gas reservoirs. Pete Hegseth is right now engaged into weaning-out ‘hurdles’ and bringing-in loyalists so that there is no room left for any disagreement in the unity of command, as there are now estimates that US itself or Israel or both together might go ahead to nuclear bomb Iran, if Iran is to keep on the resistance! The latest described as ‘most daring’ search of US pilot, brought down, when Iran had fired F-15E Strike Eagle on April 3, by US President Donald Trump, in which 200 marines and 155 aircrafts were deployed, has turned out that in all primacy it was the search for Iran’s enriched Uranium and not for the single pilot.
Shocking Reports: 500 North Korean ICBMs Reach Iran
Yet, there is also a news, which has not as yet hogged the limelight, but has made social-media go agog is the unprecedented development that reportedly 500 North Korean Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles have reached Iran! According to a commentary by Professor Jiang Xueqin who is a Chinese-Canadian educator and commentator, available on Youtube1, US has been forced into a high alert. The most consequential weapons transfer in modern history may have just happened, and the West may have missed it entirely. Iran has received 500 Hwasong-18 ICBMs from North Korea-road-mobile, solid-fuel systems with maneuvering re-entry vehicles that could radically alter every defense calculation in the region. It has been one of the most enduring covert transfer, between the two nations, as the technical architecture attributed to the Hwasong-18, will force Washington’s to recalibrate its strategic response as after ICMBs having acceded to Iran, a new scenario has been opened to Israel, regional missile defense, and the wider global balance of power. If true, this would mark a shift far beyond a normal arms transfer and force a complete reassessment of deterrence, escalation, and military planning.
Secret Route and Game-Changing Capabilities
How could Iran make to it? A task of this propensity with probably everything under US surveillance and yet it happened is getting discussed all across the globe. The development is the single most consequential weapons transfer in the history of the modern Middle East, which took its route from North Korea through China controlled corridor, later into Russia, and via the land route finally landed in Iran, evading any sea route. The most advanced solid fuel ICBMs have reached Iran, which the Western intelligence could not have a whiff-off. Their range capability exceeds 15000 kms, they are road mobile, they can hide, positioned and calibrated, across whole of Iran’s vast national territory, and cannot be targeted without real time intelligence, which is also perhaps beyond satellite surveillance, and are equipped with nuclear payloads and are designed in such a way that they cannot be intercepted. Surely, if this news holds credibility then Iran is now on an equal pedestal to both US and Israel alike.
It is also learnt that Trump has gone berserk to bomb Iran back to the stone ages. Iran has stood defiant. There is a ticking 48 hours deadline too. What is to happen next? Will US obliterate Iran? Will US finally smoke Iran, how will Iran retaliate to it, is all yet to be disclosed. World is most eagerly waiting as to what is to happen next
Note: The writer Haider Abbas is a former UP State Information Commissioner and writes on international issues.
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