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Get Ready for War

In the Middle East

 

An A-O Report Intelligence Digest

For

11/14/11

 

 

Situational Overview:

 

President Obama attended an Asia-Pacific summit over the past weekend (11/12 – 11/13) held in Hawaii. While the summit itself was concerned with promoting economic growth within the Pacific region, the issue of a nuclear Iran overshadowed all other issues. This overshadowing came as the result of a new UN nuclear watchdog agency report (IAEA) concerning Iran’s nuclear program released on November 8. The report concluded that Iran was much further along in its nuclear program than anyone realized. The report also provided strong circumstantial evidence indicating Iran was indeed working to develop nuclear weapons.

The Asia Pacific summit gave President Obama the chance to discuss the Iranian situation with the leaders of both Russia and China as well as other attending nations including India and Japan. At a post-summit news conference, President Obama explained that in his discussions with Russian and Chinese leaders, all three nations were of one accord in opposing a nuclear-armed Iran, but the Russians and Chinese were opposed to any additional sanctions as a means to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons.

Both the Russians and the Chinese were reportedly open to alternative means to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, but no further elaboration was provided on what alternatives those two nations would be willing to support.

President Obama also reiterated that all options remained on the table concerning Iran’s nuclear ambitions, including the use of military force to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

During the week preceding the summit, the White House was mulling over the recently published IAEA report which warned that Iran’s nuclear program was far more advanced than previously reported. The IAEA report also found strong, circumstantial evidence to indicate that Iran does indeed have a nuclear weapons program. The IAEA report however only provided data on the Iranian nuclear program through the year 2009.

What was not publicly revealed, was IAEA data and new intelligence reports from Western intelligence agencies indicating that Iran not only has a nuclear weapons program, but that program has achieved nuclear weapons capabilities including an arsenal of missile warheads and ballistic missiles with which to deliver such weapons.

In fact, as early as late October, new intelligence reports reached the President’s desk indicating that Iran has a nuclear missile arsenal that threatens not only Israel and the Middle East but also Europe and the continental United States.

With this information in hand, Washington, D.C. sources indicated that the Pentagon is tweaking plans for military action against Iran. Such plans involve a variety of options including everything from a simple, Israeli aerial bombing campaign to a full-blown ground war involving a multi-national army invasion of Iran.

Other sources provide conflicting reports as to what type of action, President Obama will choose in regards to Iran’s nuclear weapons development. There are some Democratic Party sources indicating that the President will not take military action and is prepared to live with a nuclear-armed Iran, despite public statements indicating the President will never allow a nuclear-armed Iran.

Still other party sources report that Obama will indeed order military action by or before October of 2012 in order to keep his promises and Jewish voter support for his re-election. At the moment the President is leaving all of his options open, including the idea of additional, harsh sanctions against Iran, although such notions are being rejected by Russia and China.

 Additional economic sanctions against Iran are likely to backfire, according to some Washington sources. Such sources note that any further economic sanctions will likely result in a further deterioration of the dollar and destabilize the world currency markets as well as investment markets. The President has been informed that should such sanctions be invoked, a new economic crisis could emerge that will sink the European Union and possibly collapse world stock and bond markets.

Aside from sanctions, the only real option left is a military option against Iran. The problem is that American and its western allies are nearly bankrupt and can ill-afford the cost of military action against Iran, particularly if oil prices shoot up to $200 a barrel as some experts forecast. It would seem that President Obama is between a rock and a hard spot concerning the Iranian nuclear situation and time is running out for a decision.

In light of the intense media talk of military action against Iran, the Iranians have initiated steps to move their nuclear equipment and personnel to underground safe areas, notably at a new underground mountain base near the holy city of Qom. Iranian nuclear scientists, engineers and technicians and their families are reportedly being prepared and moved to these safer facilities.

Even as Iran began to implement such moves, two explosion incidents this past weekend underscored the urgency of the situation.  One explosion on the outskirts of Tehran blew up an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps ammunition warehouse which contained riot gear used to control civilian riots. Another explosion occurred at a secret IRGC missile base, killing Iran’s top commander of its ballistic missile capabilities. This explosion reportedly occurred as an Iranian scientists and engineers were attempting to install a nuclear warhead on top of an Iranian ballistic missile, a Shehab-3.

An Iranian dissident group claimed credit for the explosions as a terror attack, but the Iranian leadership denied the report and claimed both incidents were simply accidental. Nevertheless, the explosions briefly set off civilian concerns that the nation was under an Israeli attack. Some wealthy Iranians were reportedly trying to flee the country in the wake of not only the explosions but of a general war footing being implemented by the regime’s leadership.

We’ve provided an outline of what we know and understand concerning the latest developments. The following information may seem a bit scary, but we caution our readers that much of this Information is conflicted by counter-reports suggesting that President Obama is more inclined to ignore the military option and settle for the idea of living with a nuclear-armed Iran.

Even so, we tend to conclude that Obama will indeed take on the military option as we near the Presidential elections next November. Such a military action might just rescue the President’s re-election chances, which now seem rather shaky. We also suspect that military action will be the only way to deal with the world economic crisis that threatens to bring down the European Union.

A major war in the Middle East might well be the best way to bring about a New World Order with a new global government and a new, global monetary system. Indeed it would set the stage for the rise of a great world dictator, aka, the “Antichrist.”

With all of this in mind, we’ll now proceed with a review of the pertinent intelligence information surrounding the Iranian nuclear crisis.

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I. IAEA Report Findings

The UN’s IAEA report was published on Tuesday, November 8. Its conclusions set off a media firestorm of articles suggesting that either Israel or the United States will have to take military action against Iran in order to stop Iran from building its own nuclear weapons. The report concluded that there was substantial circumstantial evidence suggesting that not only was Iran working to build its own nuclear weapons, but also that Iran’s efforts at weaponization were far more advanced than any previous reports suggested.

II. What the IAEA Report Left Out

    A. Key Details Left Out

The report indicated that not only was Iran’s weaponization efforts well advanced but also, Iran’s ballistic missile program was well advanced for delivering nuclear warheads. What the report failed to provide was intelligence information beyond the year 2009.

   B. Iran Already Has Operational Nuke Warheads on Medium Range Missiles Able to Reach Much of Turkey & Europe as well as India

Other intelligence sources are reporting that additional data from 2010 and this year indicate that Iran now has several, operational nuclear warheads mounted on ballistic missiles which pose a threat not only to Israel and other Middle Eastern nations but also to much of Europe.

   C. Iran Rapidly Readying ICBM Nukes for USA Strike. ICBMs to be Ready within 1 2012.

There is conflicting information that Iran already has one or more warheads mounted on ICBMs capable of reaching the United States. Such missiles however have less than pinpoint guidance systems. Some reports indicate that such ICBMs are still not operational and do not have any nuclear warheads yet but will by late 2012 if not sooner.

 

III. Iran Already Has Nuclear Weapons

     A. No Iran Nuke Test, Yet

At the moment, Iran has yet to actually test a nuclear warhead by detonation. Instead the warheads have been tested only in cyber-space. It is estimated that Iran may have anywhere from 6 to 12 operational warheads built by Iran. Iran may also have as many has 6 or more old nuclear warheads purchased on the black market several years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union. These were warheads off of cruise missiles called the KH-55 cruise missiles.

     B. Iran's Nuke Reach

The bulk of Iran’s ballistic missile fleet is composed of Shehab-3 medium range ballistic missiles. We understand that Iran claims to have 400 of such missiles in their arsenal. These missiles are capable of reaching anywhere in the Middle East as well as much of Europe and Asia.

 

IV. War Plans Being Finalized: In the works since the Bush Presidency.

     A. Iran Goes onto a War; Footing Iranian Preparations:

Ayatollah Khamenei last week put Iran onto a war footing after a meeting with all key members of the Iranian regime. The Supreme leader listened to arguments from 3 factions as to how the regime should respond to the latest developments after the UN's IAEA report.

The Supreme Leader concluded that the public statements and response following the IAEA report necessitated the Iranian military to be ready for the outbreak of war. In doing so, Khamenei stressed that Iran would not fire the first shot, although such a vow was not beholden to Iran's proxyforces in Lebanon, Syria or the Gaza Strip.

As the weekend [11/12] began, Iran experienced a terror attack on two key IRGC military installations near the regime's headquarters in Tehran. Both attacks involved setting off explosions. One destroyed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards munitions depot in which civilian riot control gear was stored.

The other blast was located at a super-secret IRGC missile base about 20 miles west of Tehran. This blast reportedly involved sabotaging a nuclear missile warhead that was being attached to a Shahab 3 medium range missile. The explosion at the super-secret missile facility at Bidgeneh was alleged by one intelligence source to be the result of a an attempt to arm a Shehab 3 ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.

The blast killed the IRGC's Major General Hassan Tehrani-Moqadam who was head of the IRGC's Office of Self Sufficiency and who oversaw portions of Iran's nuclear weapons and missile development programs. He was apparently observing the 'arming' procedure when the blast occurred.

An Iranian dissident group claims responsibility for the two explosions but the Iranian government denies the explosions were the result of sabotage or terrorism. In fact, the regime is keeping a lid on details of the explosions, particularly at the IRGC missile facility at Bidgeneh. Whether or not the missile explosion was due to sabotage or an accident is a matter of speculation at this point, but some sources report this was not the first missile armed with a nuclear warhead. We have no known reports of radiation leakage to confirm anything nuclear was involved in the blast.

Western military analysts and intelligence experts report that the IRGC base at Bidgeneh contains a missile factory as well as a storehouse for medium range missiles such as the Shehab (Shahab) 3 ballistic missiles capable of reaching not only Israel but also portions of southeastern Europe and central Asia. It is also where part of the Seijil missile program as well as Shehab-4 and Shehab-5 ICBM missiles are being developed for nuclear warheads.

The blasts at both locations created a furor in Tehran itself as many residents initially feared the blasts were part of either a U.S. or Israeli air strike. The latest events have begun to trigger a serious debate among Iranian citizens on the value of having a nuclear weapons program. Some wealthy Iranians were reportedly fleeing the city and the nation in anticipation of an imminent military attack by either Israel or the USA and western nations.

The chairman of Iran's Nuclear Energy Agency, Fereydoon Abbasi began supervising a crash program of transferring all of Iran's nuclear testing labs and equipment to bomb-proof facilities inside the newly constructed mountain base near the holy city of Qom. Construction of the inner mountain facility is not yet completed but the Iranians believe it is strong enough to withstand any air and missile attack, short of direct nuclear warheads of large size. This move will delay further production of Iranian nuclear weapons but it is believed by the Iranian leadership to be necessary, in the event of major military action by the West. 

The Iranians believe that if the West should delay an attack until Spring, Iran's nuclear weapons production could be back in operation and immune from anything but a nuclear attack which Iran does not fear due to geo-political complications that would result from the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

As this week [Sunday 11/13/11] begins, Iran's top nuclear scientists, engineers and techs along with their families will be secretly moved to new homes inside secret, bomb-proof facilities. This will prevent them from being targeted for death in a way that could also jeopardize the Iranian nuclear program.

 

     B. Allied Preparations for War

Defense officials and military leaders of the U.S., Israel, UK and NATO have been holding numerous talks in the last 30 days, especially the last 10 days. Israel has held special aerial drills with nations such as Greece, Italy, NATO, the USA and Germany. The German Air Force has also been holding separate aerial drills related to an attack on Iran.

The U.S. and Israel have held previous drills for the past two years and are in a state on nearly constant coordination on missile defenses.

 

V.  Nations Take Sides For War:

     A. Allied Nations:

Israel, USA, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Canada, Australia, Turkey & Saudi Arabia and  the United Arab Emirates (UAE),

 

     B. Axis Nations: 

Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria

 

     C. Possible Nations joining Axis: 

Russia, China, North Korea, old Soviet Republics of Central Asia, Venezuela, Brazil, Egypt, Poland, Ukraine, Scandinavia

 

     D. Possible Nations joining Allies:

India, Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, Greece, Spain,

 

Such a war could rip up the United Nations and shred its charter much like what WW2 did to the League of Nations and thus set the stage for a New World Order global government.

One key element to the Allied coalition is the Turkey-Israeli relationship. Fences must be mended, or so some sources report. One of sources reports that the Turk-Israeli dispute was a phony dispute, an act of deception to woo the Iranians into confiding with the Turks ahead of war. Turkey is determined to not let Iran become a nuclear power without Turkey also being a nuclear power. The Turk-Israeli disputes about the Gaza Strip and the Gas/Oil fields in the eastern Mediterranean were just a smokescreen and to put Iran off balance.

 

VI. Why War Now?

 

In addition to the Iranian nuclear factor, it has become clear that the world economy is in shreds, particularly in Europe and America. War is the 'easy' way to re-start a world economy and Iran will be the convenient scapegoat once it is revealed that Iran has nuclear weapons and able to launch nuclear strikes not only at Israel, but Europe and America.

Another reason is to strip the Mideast of nuclear weapons and prevent future nuke programs in the Mideast by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.

Another reason for war in the Mideast is to alter the flow of crude oil and cut-off the cheap oil to Red China.

Still, another reason for war in the Mideast is to trim back Russian opposition to a New World Order should the Russians choose to actively side with Iran, militarily. Russia will either be "for" the NWO or against it and if against it; Russia must be taught a lesson to submit to an "illuminated global government."

 

WILD CARD:

Turkey is the real wild card. While we have one source proposing that the Turk-Israeli squabble is a deception aimed at deceiving Iranian strategists, other Intel sources report that the White House has been working mightily to force Turkey & Israel to patch up their differences over the gas and oil fields in the Mediterranean Sea. Both nations are apparently reluctant to do so, with a greater reluctance coming from Turkish leaders. It is entirely possible that at the last minute

Turkey will drop from the Allied roster and join the Iranian roster and or launch its own attack on Israel after the Iranian operation has decimated Iran's nuclear facilities. This would fit with the Turkish government's pattern of flip-flopping that has developed within the last couple of years.

In other words, the Turks can't be trusted. A Turkish siding with Iran would fit the Ezekiel Prophecies of a Magog war. The modern nation of Turkey certainly seems to be one of the nations being described by Ezekiel's prophecies as found in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39.

 

 

VII. Allied War Preps:

      A. Australia Housing US Marines Returning from Mideast. See LINK HERE.

     B. US & Israeli Military Leaders in Planning Sessions for past 5 years. Intensified in 2011

     C. UK & Israeli Defense Chiefs in Marathon Huddling - RAF Conducts Air Drills

     D. Israeli-German Defense Chiefs Huddled; Luftwaffe Conducts Air Drills

     E. Turkey Told In No Uncertain Terms, "Cool it" on Mediterranean Oil/Gas Claims and Patch Up Differences with Israel, Pronto.

     F. Saudi Arabia Gov't Gears For War with Leadership Changes

     G. UAE to buy 4,900 "Bunker Buster" and JDAM Bombs from USA: Link Here and LINK HERE.

  

VIII. Allied Attack Plans

 

A. When?

    1. The final timetable will depend on a host of variables, such as the weather, the position of the moon with respect to tides, storms in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and the seasonal directions of underwater coastal currents. However, it is generally expected to go forward as expeditiously as possible.

    2.  Within 1 to 10 months - Before the 2012 Elections

 

B. What's Involved? 4 Options could be employed

    1. Comprehensive Air-Sea-Ground Operations

    2. Air Campaign with Missile and Warplane Strikes Around the Clock (Shock & Awe)

    3. Sea Campaign - Naval Blockade, Destruction of Iran's Navy, Amphibious Landings.

    4. Ground Campaign - Special Forces insertions for both aerial bomb targeting, plus takeout of Iranian command facilities, possible regime-change. If necessary, may involved larger, longer ground campaign with up to 100,000 troops from a dozen nations into Iran and perhaps also into Pakistan?

C. Length of Operations: Various Sources Give Different Estimates

     1. 5 to 10 Days - limited operations - to set back nuke activities by 2-4 years

     2. 2 to 4 weeks - Medium operations to destroy virtually all nuke assets

     3. 1 to 3 months - Comprehensive operations to destroy all nuke assets plus destroy the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and regime change.

The length of operations will reportedly be decided by Iran's responses.

     1. Limited Iranian response = limited Allied response

     2. Significant Iranian response = medium Allied operations response

     3. All-out Iranian response = comprehensive operations

     4. Nuke Response by Iran = Nuclear annihilation of Iran

 

Iran's responses will be measured also by responses of Hezbollah, Hamas & Syria as well as Pakistan, Russia, China, and African Muslim nations.

Some Intelligences reports indicate Israel will take a front seat in any attack on Iran with Allies only providing logistical support. This would likely only occur if initial strikes by Israel triggered no response from Syria or Hezbollah in the first 5 days. IF, however Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas respond immediately with massive missile/rocket attacks then the Allied Response would switch from Logistical support to active, frontline support, while Israel withdraws its air assets to defense of Israel and attacks on Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops would also engage in ground attacks.

Should Syria utilize any WMD attacks as threatened by President Assad, look for Israel to respond with nuclear strikes on Damascus and Assad's palace & HDQ.

Should Iran respond with massive missile strikes and or also WMD missiles, look for the Western Allies to spring into major military action against Iran and the goal would be regime change in Iran as well as the decimation of Iran's radicals in the Iranian military. In a worst-case scenario, look for as many as 100,000 troops inside Iran from a dozen or more nations.

There are some indications that some surprises await Iran involving new, super-secret Allied weapons of an unspecified nature that will enable the operation to proceed at beyond a break-neck pace to wrap up essential goals.

 

IX. Iran's Counter-attack Responses

   A. On Tuesday (11/8) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his cabinet:

"The military showdown with the West and Israel is close. It can no longer be prevented."

By Presidential order, backed by the order of the Supreme Ayatollah, Iran's military was thrust into a war footing and preparations for an impending attack and counter-attack went into motion. Iran's chief war strategist, General Soleimani explained in a review the 102 American military targets which he selected to be primary counter-attack ballistic missile targets once the war began.

These missiles would be fired from mobile missile launchers located outside of Iran in Syria. They would be fired from positions inside the Syrian-Iraqi border onto U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf and then moved to hiding positions inside Syria where hopefully they would not be discovered or attacked. Such a tactic would make it more difficult for American forces to determine who was responsible for launching the strikes.

General Soleimani also explained that Hezbollah forces would fire 150 Scud B & D missiles from the Iraqi border against the oil fields and terminals of the Persian Gulf nations, setting them on fire. Scud B's and D's were what the Iraqi Army had available for use prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003. These missiles were turned over to Syria by Saddam Hussein prior to the US invasion.

Hezbollah and Iranian supervisors are expected to move these mobile units into position in southern Iraq, just prior to firing as part of the counter-attack.

The IRGC's Aerospace commander responsible for Iran's missile systems, General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh reportedly has 400 operational Shehab-3 Kadar missiles capable of carrying all types of WMD warheads, including nuclear, chemical and biological warheads. These missiles have been moved to secret, underground and bomb-proof locations around Iran.

Some missiles have been moved into newly constructed and bomb-proof missile silos. The General believes that at least half of his 200 missiles would survive against enemy missile defenses and errant targeting and reach their intended targets causing massive damage, particularly to Israeli civilian targets. The entire nation of Israel would be struck by missiles. The general also anticipates that Hezbollah and Hamas will strike Israel with up to 1,000 long/medium range missiles and 3,000 short range rockets.

We should also note that since June of 2011, Iran is believed to have a new ICBM missile that is operational and capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to any point on earth, although the missile does not have pinpoint precision targeting capabilities.

The latest IAEA report only includes data covering up to the year 2009. Had the data for 2010 and 2011 been included, the report would have been forced to include shocking details of Iran's full nuclear weapons capabilities.

This last revelation, along with the intelligence findings that Iran has nuclear missile warheads that are already attached to missiles was known to the UN's IAEA chairman, but it was decided by both the UN, US and NATO leaders that this information should be kept secret and not published in the latest IAEA report. Instead, at the appropriate time, the information would be released as justification for attacking Iran. Until then, the IAEA report would limit its data to include details up to the year 2009.

By delaying the news of Iran's nuclear capabilities, President Obama has bought himself some time after a visit with the UN's IAEA chairman on October 29, 2011. The UN chairman sat down with President Obama, and Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon to review and discuss how the IAEA report should proceed. The three men together decided that the report should cut out the last two years of intelligence data that reveals Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities. By delaying the release of this shocking information, the President figures he has anywhere from six to ten months to decide whether or not to take military action against Iran's nuclear weapons.

It is thought that if Iran doesn't force the issue sooner by conducting a nuclear test explosion, or starting a shooting war with Israel via proxy forces, the U.S. would be better served to launch attacks during better weather conditions in the spring and summer of 2012. Such actions could boost Obama's re-election chances or destroy his candidacy for re-election.

 

Who Else Knows Iran's Real Nuclear Status?

 

The President has shared with key allies the true nature of the Iranian nuclear threat. Those allies who now know the reality of a nuclear Iran include the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Holland, and Israel. It is also believed that Russia and China now know also of Iran's full nuclear capabilities and yet, for now, they remain standing in support of Iran, at least publicly.

The amount of nuclear warheads in the Iranian inventory remains unknown but it is believed that the Iranians have built at least 4 to 6 warheads along with at least one test weapon. It is also believed that the Iranians have purchased anywhere from 6 to 12 warheads on the black market that were once part of the old Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. These have been converted to use as cruise missiles launched by Iranian warplanes and or converted to missile warheads.

Because the inventory quantities remain unknown, some Pentagon strategists believe that nothing short of a multi-national ground invasion force will eradicate Iran's nuclear capabilities. Such a multi-national force is being considered for use not only against Iran but also against Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

As a result, Pakistan's military has begun moving its nuclear weapons from previously known storage points to new, secret locations. The new Pakistani government is also reneging on prior agreements between Saudi Arabia and the old Musharraf regime to share nuclear weapons capabilities in exchange for money. Suddenly, the Saudis find themselves without the ability to respond to a nuclear attack with its own nuclear missiles.

 

Also, in recent days, Pakistan has accepted a Russian invitation to join the Anti-West Asian block known as the Shanghai Group. This would give the Shanghai group, two nuclear allies located on the shores of the Arabian Sea. This would prove to be a demonstrative threat to the world's economic health. Also, Afghanistan was persuaded to join the Shanghai Group and thus, we now have Afghanistan preparing to openly align with Iran as part of a "Magog" confederacy - exactly what was prophesied by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 38 and 39, according to ancient rabbinical writings dating to about 300 B.C. Suddenly in one fell swoop within the last two weeks, the prophetic pieces of the Ezekiel prophecy puzzle known as the Magog War, are falling into place.

The other confederate nations of the Magog confederation as mentioned by Ezekiel include, Libya and portions of central Africa, including Somalia and Sudan. After the death of Moammar Gahdafi, Libyan rebels have reportedly surfaced in the Gaza Strip, armed with newer, more accurate small-range rockets and anti-air shoulder-fired missiles.

The only nation mentioned in Ezekiel's account of the Magog confederation is Turkey, although some would also argue Russia and her neighboring Muslim republics of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, also members of the Shanghai Council.

With new Iranian and Pakistani membership in the group, if Iran is attacked, the entire contingent of Shanghai Council members could be forced to ally in defense with Iran. That would bring in Russia and the Muslim republics into the prophetic confederation against Israel. This would leave only Turkey not yet directly aligned with Iran. Given Turkey's penchant for switching sides, we would not be surprised to find Turkey suddenly switching sides, once the shooting starts.

 

Keep in mind, that according to some written ancient rabbinical accounts dating to 300 B.C. and passed down orally from the time of Ezekiel, Ezekiel told his students that the Land of Magog as mentioned in the prophecies was the land which today entails eastern Iran, western Pakistan and western Afghanistan. Other tribes mentioned by Ezekiel included the rest of present-day Iran, plus all of Turkey.

 

Iran's Defense Plans

    A. 12 Military Defense Sectors

Iran has chosen to defend itself by giving up on autonomous command/control headquarters. Instead, the nation has been divided into 12 military districts for defensive control purposes. Such a move prevents a single air strike from destroying the entire nation's command and control capabilities. Local district commanders would have full autonomy to battle an invasion of Iran by Western ground forces.

    B. Iran's Navy Plans for Shore Defense

Iran's Navy commander has re-structured the Navy's shore defenses and laid out a new strategy for Naval ships and boats to provide shoreline protection against amphibious landings by Western forces. Additional naval elements will be deployed to confront Israeli and Western submarines and interfere with allied submarine operations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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