Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh and Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, in the command room after Operation True Promise-2 in 2024.

@Middle_East_Spectator

For more facts about Israel's enormous influence on US politics and military interventions around the world, subscribe to our partners' channel, @geopolitics_prime.

https://www.tg-me.com/geopolitics_prime/52514

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Newsweek reports that 15% to 20% of the global THAAD missile interceptor stockpile was depleted to defend against Iranian attacks in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, with costs exceeding $800 million

The Pentagon press office told Newsweek, 'We have nothing to provide.'

Approximately 100 U.S. troops have been deployed in Israel with two THAAD batteries since 2024 to intercept Iranian and Yemeni missiles.

To defend against just one of the 22 waves of Operation True Promise 3, the U.S. military used 39 THAAD interceptors, while Israelis used more than 40 'Arrow' missiles.

A 2021 U.S. Department of Defense press briefing revealed that only 41 THAAD interceptors were ordered for that year, bringing the global total to 625 by the end of 2021. It is unclear how many exist in total currently.

*The $800 million cost does not include the expenses for SM-3, SM-6, and other missiles used by the U.S. military in their interception attempts during the 12-day war.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 WATCH: Speaking about Ayatollah Khamenei's speech and the war, Donald Trump says that Iran and Israel were 'both beat up' and that 'it was a great time to end it; they got the hate out.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Iran's Foreign Minister was asked if he has any response to Trump: 'No'

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Satellite imagery shows that Iran has opened one of the tunnels at the underground complex below the Esfahan uranium conversion facility, believed to be located several dozens of meters deeper than Fordow, at a depth of approximately ~100 meters, described as 'impenetrable' by U.S. analysts

The satellite imagery seems to confirm that Iran is either relocating part of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium or installing enrichment centrifuges.

U.S. sources confirmed after the strike on Fordow that another underground facility was located underneath the conversion facility at Esfahan, the B-2 bombers did not target this facility, because it was too deep to be targeted even by the GBU-57 'MOP' bunker busters.

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman in a statement to Congress:

'We did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of the largest underground nuclear facilities in Isfahan because the site is so deep that the munitions may not have been effective.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

— So, even if we assume Fordow is destroyed (it isn't), there are at least two facilities left:

1. Underground tunnels below the Esfahan uranium conversion facility, located ~100 meters deep, likely used for storing enriched uranium.

2. Huge recently built facility underground at Natanz, also ~100 meters deep, likely fit for cascades / centrifuges (if not already installed).

And likely several secret facilities that we have no idea about.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of blowing up an Israeli armored vehicle, detonating a booby-trapped building, killing and wounding IDF soldiers, destroying a 'D9' military bulldozer, along with mortar and rocket attacks from June 16 to June 24 in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

@Middle_East_Spectator