🇮🇷Know Your Adversary… Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Not a Fortunate Son | Sonar21

I say adversary instead of enemy. Mr. Khamenei and the Iranian people are not the enemies of the US. They did not attack us on February 28, we attacked them… And we did so while the Iranians were engaged in good faith negotiations, or so they thought. Iran’s new Ayatollah shares something in common with President John F. Kennedy and President George H. W. Bush… He’s a combat veteran.

I think it is important that the American people understand that Mojtaba Khameni was a 17 year old boy from a privileged family — sort of like Baron Trump — who ignored his father, enlisted, fought on the front lines in that war with Iraq and was wounded. He absolutely knows the cost of war.

Footnote : "The eight-year bloody Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) stands out as the longest conventional military conflict in the twentieth century. By its end, the conflict had killed or wounded more than one million people on both sides"

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What unfolded in the skies over Isfahan in Iran is not merely a military incident, it is rather a revealing moment.

Images and footage circulating show the aftermath of what Iran describes as a failed United States rescue operation: a downed F-15, followed by the destruction of additional assets, including a Black Hawk helicopter and a C-130 transport aircraft, all reportedly struck during attempts to recover a missing American pilot.

But the most telling detail is not the losses... it is the ending. The site where the F-15 was brought down has not simply been abandoned; it has been erased. Reduced to dust. No intact wreckage. No recoverable evidence. Nothing left behind.

This raises a question far more profound than the tactical failure itself:

Was the priority truly to rescue… or to eliminate?

Because what this operation appears to demonstrate is a doctrine not of recovery, but of denial; ensuring that neither personnel, nor technology, nor even fragments of the truth fall into opposing hands. A logic that mirrors, in effect if not in name, the same brutal calculus often associated with Zionist Israel's "Hannibal Directive": better total destruction than the risk of capture.

And if that is the case, then what does it say about the values being upheld?

About "morale" when soldiers know that rescue may not come?
About "loyalty" when survival is conditional?
About "respect" when the final act is obliteration rather than protection?

In the end, this is not just about a downed jet. It is about a mindset; one that treats its own not as lives to be saved, but as liabilities to be erased.

And that, perhaps, speaks louder than any official statement ever could.