Sy Hersh is out with a sad new article — Inside Trump and Netanyahu’s Meeting on Iran — that contains three ridiculous, nonsensical paragraphs, which were fed to him by one of his sources. This is an article that Sy never would have written in his prime because he would have tried to corroborate the outlandish assertions. Here are the paragraphs:
Where do I begin? I don’t know if Sy’s source was an Israeli or someone from the US intelligence community, but the info he or she fed Sy is not accurate. Which leads to the next question… Did the source really believe the information was true or was the source using Sy to salt social media with propaganda? Let’s start with the first claim, i.e., the Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal was wiped out last June. Iran stopped firing missiles at Iran on June 24 because of a deal negotiated with the US to end the war… Not because Iran had run out of missiles. Iran’s ballistic missiles are stored in massive secure underground caves. We have seen no credible evidence that Israel or the US destroyed any of those facilities. Remember all of the predictions about Russia’s missile capability in the Spring and Summer of 2022? We were repeatedly informed that Russia was running out of missiles and that their inventory would soon be exhausted. I think we are seeing a repeat of this delusion with respect to Iran. The next whopper fed to Sy is that Iran fired 550 missiles but only 45, i.e., 8%, got through and hit a target. That claim comes from the Israeli Defense Forces. Would they have any reason to lie? (That is a sarcastic question.) Let me repeat the list of documented damages from the missiles that Iran launched last June, which I wrote about last week:
Gee, if Iran can do that much damage with just 45 missiles after getting hit with a surprise attack, imagine what they can do with advance warning and preparation. Theodore Postol, an MIT professor emeritus and longtime critic of missile defense systems (known for debunking exaggerated claims about Patriot missiles during the 1991 Gulf War) has looked at the data from June 2025 and concluded that the interception rates were far lower than officially reported, estimating only about 5% success against ballistic missiles specifically—meaning roughly 95% penetrated defenses. I find Ted far more credible. Too bad Sy didn’t ask him (and Sy knows Ted). The last problematic paragraph in Sy’s article is the claim that Iran will have enough long-range missile to hit targets in Southeastern Europe. And why would Iran attack Europe? This ridiculous claim is a repeat of previous CIA propaganda that was intended to ignite fear in Europe in order to convince the Europeans into going along with an attack on Iran. Iran is not going to waste missiles on Italy, Greece, Bosnia, or Serbia… It will use them on Israel. If Trump, despite warnings from JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, chooses to launch an unprovoked war against Iran, I would not be surprised if Iran decides to launch its retaliatory strike before the US bombs and missiles hit targets in Iran. I am not talking about a preemptive strike, rather I am assuming that Russia and China will alert Iran when US attack aircraft take off on their first mission and that Iran will in turn fire off its first salvo of drones and missiles while the US planes and cruise missiles are headed towards targets in Iran. If this goes hot we will be staring into the gaping yaw of a major regional war and the US may suffer more casualties then it incurred in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. So much for Donald Trump’s promise to not get America into a needless foreign war. I had the privilege of chatting about Iran and the war in Ukraine on Wednesday with my good friend, George Galloway: Garland Nixon and I also discussed the upcoming attack on Iran: And Rasheed Mohammed and I had a forty minute chat on the looming disaster: Son of the New American Revolution is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Invite your friends and earn rewardsIf you enjoy Son of the New American Revolution, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. © 2026 Larry C Johnson |