Israel och USA attackerar Iran 2026-02-28

Iran kör med mycket avrättningar just nu. De är inte populära för folket. Men Iran har ju en ca 5-20% regim trogna. Dessa är även ett litet problem för regimen, eller i alla fall den politiska delen. Den utvecklingen är sjukt rolig.

Jag tänkte alltså att beväpna folket. Den stora massan som demonstrerade i januari och den ännu större massan som vill ha demokrati.

Kurderna i Iran naturligtvis också. Som jag förstår det är de och folket nära. Inte samma sak med kurderna i Irak. De har annan målsättning, och är ett potentiellt problem även för ett fritt Iran.

The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser-focused: Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their navy and other security infrastructure – and they will never have nuclear weapons.

Events in the Central Region have shown how quickly the course of history can change. Decades-old features of the strategic landscape, once thought immutable, have been upended. Since 1979, the Iranian regime has terrorized the region. Its network of proxies exploited openings wherever found, undermining neighboring governments and exporting its unique brand of state-sponsored terror. Its ballistic missile arsenal and one-way attack drones cast a long shadow across the region from Tehran to the Mediterranean Sea. Iran continued to enrich uranium well beyond any civilian use case, employing the specter of nuclear war as a tool of regional and international coercion. The regime’s decades-long vision of exporting a radical ideology wreaked havoc on neighboring states and wrought violent confrontation with the United States and its partners. This long-simmering conflict was brought to a full boil on 7 October 2023.

In the years that followed, Iran’s proxies were degraded in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, its arsenal of standoff munitions were defeated four times during attempted mass wave attacks against Israel, and its nuclear program suffered a devastating setback during Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER. The regime was down, but not out. It turned its fury inwards, massacring thousands of its own people who were simply demanding a better life, all the while beginning to reconstitute its hard power toolset. United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), at the direction of the President of the United States, initiated Operation EPIC FURY (OEF).

In less than 40 days of major combat operations, USCENTCOM forces systematically dismantled what Iran spent four decades and tens of billions of dollars building. The capabilities on which the regime relied to threaten our forces, coerce our partners, and project power across the region have been substantially degraded. Combined with the damage Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER inflicted on Iran’s nuclear program, USCENTCOM assesses that Iran can no longer project power across the region, nor pose the persistent threat to the United States or our partners that it did prior to Operation EPIC FURY. As of this submission, United States air and naval forces continue to enforce the Presidentially directed blockade against Iranian ports and merchant vessels while enabling neutral vessels to transit, as Iran attempts to extort global commerce and threaten innocent mariners.

Iran can no longer reliably arm or resupply Lebanese Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, or militia groups in Iraq with advanced weapons. These groups, the Iranian Threat Network, have been the backbone of Iran’s work to destabilize the region. This dynamic presents an opportunity for a generational shift in the regional balance of power. Sustaining our advantage will require continued enforcement, vigilance against reconstitution, and readiness to act should Tehran choose revenge over restraint. USCENTCOM maintains a ready and resilient posture to deter aggression, defend U.S. forces, enable partners, and provide credible military power, when directed, to support diplomatic efforts and provide the President and Secretary of War with a range of options.