Chapter 1389: Split Iran

On the edge of Isfahan in Iran, in the town of Khomeini Shahr, in a very ordinary mosque, Khamenei frowned, sitting in the mosque, listening to the uninterrupted bad news for three consecutive months .

Iran is now on the verge of splitting up.

Last month, after the United States took military action against Iran, in the previous three days of air strikes, almost all the modern combat equipment of Iran's Islamic State, the Lange, and the Guards were destroyed.

Under the next two-week offensive by the US military, in just 14 days, the NATO coalition forces led by the United States carried out a large-scale air strike on Iran.

During the fourteen days, more than 500 fighter jets were dispatched almost every day to attack the main facilities in Iran.

In addition to air strikes on military targets, it also caused huge damage to Iran's power stations, major industrial factories, and important political institutions.

Although a large amount of ground combat equipment of the ISIS, Lange, and Ming Guards was camouflaged, they still suffered heavy casualties under the air strikes of the NATO coalition forces.

The intensity and density of air strikes have reached the strongest state since the 21st century.

Compared with when the Iraqi-Syrian Federation attacked Israel, the density is much stronger.

The NATO coalition forces dominated by the United States dispatched a total of six aircraft carrier battle groups, among which the USS Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier that the United Kingdom joined service also participated.

The United States dispatched three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, as well as the first ship of the Ford-class aircraft carrier, the Radiation.

Among the carrier-based aircraft that took off, in addition to the American Rafale carrier-based aircraft and the American 18 Super Hornet, the Lightning stealth carrier-based aircraft also participated in this war for the first time.

The deployment of the navy is unprecedented, and it is also the most powerful display of NATO's naval power since the 21st century.

In the land-based air force, the NATO coalition forces are also the best. The two Raptor fighter wings of the United States and more than 80 Raptor fighter jets are also participating in actual combat for the first time.

During the two-week offensive, the NATO coalition forces dispatched various aircraft and dropped hundreds of thousands of various bombs.

Iran's originally not very strong homeland defense system was completely destroyed. ISIS, Lange, and Ming Guards also suffered heavy losses in the air strikes.

In the ground battle that started two weeks later, less than 60% of the combat power of the ISIS, Lange, and Life Guards that were hit hard was left.

However, Iran at that time also made a decision to fight the invaders to the death in an all-round way.

But at the beginning of the ground war, it was almost a one-sided situation.

In Turkey, the United States has assembled 300,000 ground troops using its sea and air transportation capabilities, France has dispatched an airborne commando from the Foreign Legion, and the United Kingdom has also dispatched an armored regiment to cooperate.

Although Turkey did not directly send troops, it also assumed the logistical support of the entire coalition forces, and other NATO countries also contributed a little bit.

Although this war was not explicitly opposed by Russia and China from the very beginning, the ground war eventually broke out.

Although Iran's Islamic State, Lange, and Ming Guards have also expanded a large number of troops, they are unable to achieve any resistance in the face of the powerful ground offensive of the NATO coalition forces.

The NATO coalition forces give full play to their air superiority. Even the soldiers of the NATO coalition forces have not seen the Iranian armored forces, and they have often been destroyed by NATO's superior air power.

There is no doubt that the war has entered the process of guerrilla warfare, and it is difficult for the Islamic State, the Lange, and the Life Guards to organize large-scale effective resistance.

In the first month since the start of the ground war, the NATO coalition forces completed the established tactical goals and successfully occupied Tehran, the capital of Iran.

At this time, a sad news appeared in Iran. Most of the generals of the Iranian regular army all leaned towards the NATO coalition forces.

In the Iranian government, a large number of middle-level and grass-roots officials also chose the NATO coalition forces.

The 100,000 to 200,000 regular Iranian troops surrendered, not only arresting or directly killing all the clergy in the army, but also immediately turned their guns on ISIS, the Lange, and the Guards, which made this war appear obvious. watershed.

This also brought more serious trauma to Iran's already bad war situation.

The whole of Iran is even more mournful, and the royalists and military forces have turned against each other, making the situation in Iran worse.

Khamenei took all the clerical groups and was forced to leave Tehran, the center of power, and the royalists took the opportunity to take control of Iran's nominal government power, which made the clerical groups more passive.

The most important thing is that the descendants of the Pahlavi dynasty who fled the United States back then immediately returned to Iran. Under the election of the NATO coalition forces, they are trying to truly grasp the power of the Iranian government.

The behavior of the royalists has won the support of all the middle classes in Iran, and has gathered a lot of power in a short period of time.

The clergy group that fled Tehran still has a very high reputation among the people.

But the people want to support Khamenei, but they can't get any help. The royalists who control the power of the government immediately took the power of the regular army into their hands, and at the same time controlled a large number of media in Iran.

In addition, half of the military power is in the hands of the media, and there is support from the NATO coalition forces behind it. Although all Iranian people are very unwilling, they can only be helpless.

The first step of the NATO coalition's military operations against Iran can be said to be a perfect success.

Throughout Iran, two sharply opposing local groups have formed, and the NATO coalition forces are behind them.

In the next twenty days, the Iranian regular army received a large amount of weapon support from the NATO coalition forces, and the royalists who controlled the Iranian government's finances also purchased a large number of American weapons and equipment to arm the regular army.

A new war broke out again. In the next 20 days, the clergy group led by Khamenei not only had to avoid the air strikes of the NATO coalition forces every day, but also commanded operations, and even evacuated all the way to the southeast.

As the second largest city in Iran, Isfahan is also the holy city in the minds of the clergy, and this has become the last determination of the clerics to resist.

Once this city is lost again, the priest group will lose everything.

ISIS, the Lange, and the Guards are also planning to prepare for a decisive battle with the rebels and invaders in Isfahan.

Because there will be no place to retreat in the future, this is the last way of retreat and the last hope.

It's just that ISIS, Lange, and the guards themselves are very clear that it is simply impossible to defend the last holy city.

To be continued. ..