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A spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says more than 650 US military personnel have been killed and wounded within the first two days of Iran’s retaliatory Operation True Promise 4 by Iranian Armed Forces against US military installations and warships across West Asia.
“In the first two days of the war, 650 American troops were killed and wounded,” Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini stated on Tuesday.
He emphasized that it was natural for the US military to deny or conceal the casualties; nevertheless, Iranian intelligence as well as all field reports confirm the toll.
He said that the Iranian strikes, which included missile and drone attacks, against US naval assets and military headquarters in Bahrain, forced the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to flee towards the southern Indian Ocean.
I can’t speak for the Iraqi military’s arsenal at that time, but I feel like Iran’s current one is probably leagues better and far more competent
For one thing we’re not engaged in a ground invasion NOT because we’re ‘not trying to invade Iran’, but because we can’t; anyone stupid enough to order this would be sending scores of scumbags to their deaths while still in the air
Also Iraq was easier to conduct horrific attacks upon without retaliation before bothering to put troops on the ground while Iran can actually to some extent defend their airspace; Iraq wasn’t able to put up a fight even a 1/100th as Iran is doing now; if they truly made the carrier flee that easily puts them leagues beyond Iraq
Iran definitely learned from Iraq’s mistakes. But Iraq was one of the best fighting forces in the Middle East. They were weakened by the time of the invasion, but they had just won 2 wars in the decade prior.