Chapter 1389: A Divided Iran
In a very ordinary mosque in the town of Khomeini Shahr on the edge of Isfahan in Iran, Khamenei sat in the mosque with a frown on his brow, listening to the uninterrupted bad news for three months. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now Iran has reached the point where it is about to be divided.
After the United States took military action against Iran last month, in the first three days of air strikes, almost all the modern combat equipment of Iran's ISIS, Lange, and Vital Guards were destroyed.
In the following two-week offensive by the US military, in just 14 days, the US-led NATO coalition carried out a super-large-scale air attack on Iran.
Over the course of 14 days, more than 500 fighter sorties were dispatched almost every day to strike at major facilities in Iran.
In addition to military targets, air strikes have also caused enormous damage to Iran's power stations, major industrial plants, and important political institutions.
Although a large amount of ground combat equipment of the ISIS, Lange, and Vital Guards was camouflaged, they still suffered heavy casualties under the air raids of the NATO coalition forces.
The intensity and intensity of air raids have reached the strongest state since the beginning of the 21 st century.
Compared to when the Iraqi-Syrian Federation attacked Israel, the density was much stronger.
The US-led NATO coalition dispatched a total of six aircraft carrier battle groups, including the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier that Britain joined the service.
The United States dispatched three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, as well as the lead ship of the Ford-class aircraft carrier, the Radiation.
Among the carrier-based aircraft that took off, in addition to the American Rafale carrier-based aircraft and the American F-18 Super Hornet, the Lightning stealth carrier-based aircraft also participated in this war for the first time.
The scale of the naval dispatch is unprecedented, and it is also the most powerful display of NATO's naval strength in the 21st century.
In the land-based air force, the NATO coalition forces are also elite, and the two United States Raptor fighter wings and more than 80 Raptor fighters are also equivalent to participating in actual combat for the first time.
During the two-week offensive, the NATO coalition forces dispatched various aircraft types and dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs of various kinds.
Iran's homeland defense system, which was not very strong in the first place, was completely destroyed. The IS, Lange, and Vital Guards also suffered heavy losses in the air raids.
At the beginning of the ground battle two weeks later, the IS, Lange, and Death Guards who had been hit by the focus had less than sixty percent of their combat strength left.
However, at that time, Iran was also ready to fight to the death against the invaders.
However, at the beginning of the ground war, it was almost a one-sided situation.
The United States has amassed 300,000 ground troops in Turkey, using its sea and air transport capabilities, France has dispatched an airborne assault force from the Foreign Legion, and Britain has also dispatched an armored regiment to cooperate with the operation.
Although Turkey did not directly send troops, it also undertook the logistics support of the entire coalition army, and other NATO countries also contributed a little bit of strength.
Although this war was not explicitly opposed by Russia and China from the beginning, the ground war eventually broke out.
Although Iran's ISIS, Lange, and Vital Guards have also expanded their forces, they are unable to put up any resistance in the face of the powerful ground offensive of the NATO coalition.
The NATO coalition forces give full play to their air superiority, and Iran's armored forces, which are not even seen by the soldiers of the NATO coalition forces, are often destroyed by NATO's superior air power.
The war undoubtedly entered the process of guerrilla warfare, and it was difficult for the IS, Lange, and Vital Guards to organize large-scale and effective resistance.
In the first month of the ground war, the NATO coalition forces accomplished the set tactical objectives and successfully occupied Tehran, the capital of Iran.
At this time, a painful news appeared in Iran, and most of the generals of the Iranian regular army were all leaning on the NATO coalition forces.
A large number of middle-level and grass-roots officials in the Iranian government have also chosen the NATO coalition.
The surrender of the 120,000 Iranian regular troops not only arrested or directly killed all the clergy members in the army, but also immediately turned their guns and aimed them at the ISIS, Langue, and Vital Guards, making this war a clear watershed.
This has also brought more serious trauma to Iran's already terrible war situation.
The whole of Iran is in mourning, and the defection of royalist and military forces has made the situation in Iran even worse.
Khamenei was forced to leave Tehran, the center of power, with all the clergy, and the royalists took the opportunity to take control of Iran's nominal government, which made the clergy even more passive.
The most important thing is that the descendants of the Pahlavi dynasty, who fled the United States that year, also immediately returned to Iran, and under the election of the NATO coalition forces, they are trying to really grasp the power of the Iranian government.
The actions of the royalists, supported by all the middle class in Iran, gathered a lot of strength in a short time.
The clergy clique that fled Tehran still has a high reputation among the people.
But the population wanted to support Khamenei but received no help, and the royalists, who controlled the government, immediately took control of the regular army in their hands, as well as a large number of media outlets in Iran.
With half of the media in hand, and the support of the NATO coalition forces behind them, all the Iranian people, although very unwilling, can only be helpless.
The first step of the NATO coalition's military campaign against Iran can be said to be a perfect success.
Throughout Iran, two sharply opposed local blocs have been formed, with NATO coalition forces agitating behind the scenes.
In the next 20 days, the Iranian regular army received a large amount of weapons support from the NATO coalition forces, and the royalists, who control the Iranian government's finances, also purchased a large number of weapons and equipment from the United States to arm the regular army troops.
A new war broke out again, and for the next 20 days, the clergy group led by Khamenei not only had to avoid the air raids of the NATO coalition forces every day, but also to direct the operation, and even evacuated all the way to the southeast.
Isfahan, as the second largest city in Iran, is also the holy city in the minds of the clergy, and it has become the last determination of the clergy to resist.
If the city is lost, the clergy will lose everything.
Isfahan, Lange, and the Guards are also planning to fight to the death against the rebels and invaders in Isfahan.
Because there is no place to retreat from the future, this is the last retreat, and it is also the last hope.
It's just that Is, Lange, and the Guards themselves know very well that if they want to defend the last holy city, it is simply impossible.
(To be continued.) )