The top US admiral leading the operation in the East refuses to provide a key detail about Iran's arsenal
Iran's ability to threaten its neighbors and US interests has been severely curtailed by US bombing and Tehran's defense industry has suffered a 90% drop, a senior US admiral said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the one who led the US operation in the Middle East, tried to emphasize the tactical successes of the military campaign against Iran that he led and stated that the war has dramatically reduced the danger posed by Tehran to the Middle East as a whole.
Cooper declined to comment directly on reports by Reuters and other media outlets that Iran, which has stored weapons in underground facilities, has retained significant missile and drone capabilities. This information cites sources from the American secret services.
“Iran is a significantly reduced threat and no longer threatens regional partners or the United States in the way it once did, across the board,” Cooper told a US Senate panel.
“They were significantly weakened,” the admiral added.
Cooper also said that Iran is no longer able to transfer weapons and other resources to its main allies in the region: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
“Those transfer routes and methods have been cut off,” the senior US admiral claimed.
