[Salon] PROF STARR: AMERICA AND ISRAEL LOST IN IRAN BUT REFUSE TO QUIT

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PROF STEVEN STARR: AMERICA AND ISRAEL LOST IN IRAN BUT REFUSE TO QUIT  

Nuclear expert Professor Steven Starr just dropped a devastating update on the Iran conflict. In a new presentation he shows how the US and Israel have already lost the war yet refuse to admit defeat. Bases are destroyed, missiles are gone, and the Strait of Hormuz blockade is strangling global energy supplies. What Starr documents next will shock anyone still believing in American dominance.  

THE MILITARY COLLAPSE  
 The US has been driven completely out of the Persian Gulf.  
 Thirteen to nineteen major bases have been destroyed or abandoned.  
 The Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain was hit so hard that fewer than 100 staff remain.  
 Troops relocated to hotels that Iran then targeted.  

THE MISSILE DRAIN NIGHTMARE  
 America has fired 80% of its entire Patriot missile inventory and 60% of THAAD interceptors in just seven weeks.  
 Only eight high-altitude defense systems remain operational after Iran wiped out radar networks.  
 The US now holds fewer than 1,000 Patriots and 100 THAADs total.  
 Manufacturing rates are tiny — just 600 Patriots and 96 THAADs per year.  

THE IRANIAN RESILIENCE  
 Iran’s underground missile cities survived under 1,500 feet of granite.  
 Only one-third of their arsenal was destroyed while decoys fooled US strikes.  
 Thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of drones are still ready.  

THE BLOCKADE AND GLOBAL FALLOUT  
 The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, halting 20% of world oil and LNG.  
 Jet fuel prices have collapsed and flights are being canceled worldwide.  
 Loss of phosphate and urea fertilizers threatens famine across poorer nations.  
 Energy costs are already pushing US gas above four dollars a gallon.  

THE RELIGIOUS ZEALOT FACTOR  
 Trump posts himself as Jesus Christ while Christian Zionists fill the Pentagon.  
 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sports crusader tattoos reading “God wills it.”  
 Routine prayer meetings now purge non-fundamentalists from the military.  

THE NUCLEAR OPTION  
 Running out of conventional munitions could force the US to deploy tactical nuclear weapons against Iran’s underground missile cities.  
 Even buried tests vent massive radioactive fallout across the region.  
 Israel striking Iranian cities with 22 thermonuclear weapons would kill over 7 million in Tehran alone.  
 Firestorms would engulf entire areas with no survivors.  
 Iran already has enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear weapons, buildable in days.  
 Three such weapons on hypersonic missiles could kill 300,000 to 400,000 in Tel Aviv.  

THE BOTTOM LINE  
Professor Steven Starr lays out the cold truth: the US and Israel have lost the war in Iran but escalation is their only answer because admitting defeat is politically impossible.  
This is the sound of a superpower hitting the wall.  

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