Twenty-two days into combat operations against Iran, the United States has struck over 8,000 military targets, eliminated 130 Iranian naval vessels, and flown more than 8,000 combat sorties over Iranian skies. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth put it plainly at a Thursday press conference: “We’re winning decisively and on our terms.”
The campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, launched at the end of February after President Trump announced that U.S. and Israeli forces had begun a joint attack against the regime in Tehran, an operation that quickly killed Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Three weeks later, top military officials describe an Iranian military establishment that is not just degraded but collapsing.
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