Paul Iddon,
A former Iranian president has said his country is highly vulnerable to Israeli airstrikes. He also indirectly acknowledged that Iran’s prior efforts to stand up air defenses against Israel in the regional countries between them have failed. He’s correct on both counts.
“The skies over Iran have become completely safe for the enemy,” said former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani earlier this month. “We no longer have real deterrence. Our neighboring countries – Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan – all have airspace controlled by the United States and Israel.”
Rouhani knows a thing or two about his country’s air defense. For one, he was the commander of Iranian air defenses from 1985 until 1991, which coincided with Iran’s lengthy and arduous war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. His two consecutive terms as president, from 2013 to 2021, coincided with Iran’s unveiling of several indigenous air defense missile systems, such as the Bavar-373 and Khordad-15. During his second term, Tehran sought to set up air defenses in neighboring states as an additional layer of defense against Israel’s powerful air force.
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