The US military has revealed that strikes carried out in the opening 24 hours of its war on Iran nearly doubled the intensity of the infamous « shock and awe » bombardment of Iraq in 2003, with close to 2,000 targets hit across the country so far.
Admiral Brad Cooper of US Central Command stopped short of giving a precise figure for first-day strikes or clarifying whether Israeli operations were included in the count, but said the assault had been carried out « as part of the largest firepower buildup in the region in a generation. »
Cooper also confirmed the US was actively sinking « all of the Iranian navy », with 17 Iranian vessels already destroyed.
The move follows public calls from both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for ordinary Iranians to reclaim their country and bring down the government that has ruled it for decades.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump said: « Their air defense, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said ‘Too Late!' »
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