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Piers notes there is little sign that Pahlavi’s appeal to Iranian armed forces has produced defections.
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Iranian military
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And he directly appealed to the Iranian armed forces to fulfill their patriotic oath by abandoning the regime and protecting the people from foreign..."
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Jiang says a ground war favors the Americans and Israelis only if they can first draw out the Iranian military through proxies.
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Jiang agrees that the decapitation strikes may have been productive for the American-Israeli side because they removed stagnant military bureaucrats and opened space for a more cohesive, innovative Iranian command layer.
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"And he directly appealed to the Iranian armed forces to fulfill their patriotic oath by abandoning the regime and protecting the people from foreign..."
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"...intelligence targeting and airstrikes. The intention is to draw out the Iranian military as much as possible, right? Because a ground war favors the..."
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"since 12 the 12 -day war yeah so i don't have actually have insight into iranian uh politics but i completely agree with you..."
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"...these shock and all, blitzkrieg, just trying to wear down the Iranian military. Epic theory. Yeah. Epic theory. And because the Iranian military had..."
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"...into cannon fodder. You have to force a response from the Iranian military. Right? So if they come in with the army in order..."
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"...there's you just don't have enough munitions to destroy the entire iranian military okay so you have to be strategic now and so you..."
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"to the iranian military but there's iranian military and then there's the irgc right so right so they're actually uh different um uh parts..."
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"...were able to make $14 billion just like that. The total Iranian military budget for one year is $10 billion. Okay. So this is..."
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"...it's too bulky. It's not as nimble and resilient as the Iranian military. And we're seeing that play out right now where you have..."
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"...and send them into Iran and what will happen is the Iranian military will be. They will be forced to send in soldiers to..."
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"...of, like I mentioned, he interviewed somebody who was in the Iranian military during the war and, you know, he asked him like, what..."
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"...develop much more effective countermeasures. Remember that the mainstream of the Iranian military are drones and intercontinental ballistic missiles."
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