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Iran's terrain advantage as a large, mountainous country difficult to invade or occupy.
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mountain fortress
Iran's terrain advantage as a large, mountainous country difficult to invade or occupy.
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Iran's geographic advantage is that mountains let it hide missiles, drones, and offensive capacity, while the flat GCC is exposed and cannot defend its bases, oil fields, or desalination plants.
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"...suicidal for the American military to invade Iran. It is a mountain fortress. Okay? It's a fortress. And the last issue is, the last..."
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"80 % of all the food it consumes comes from overseas that it imports. It doesn't grow by itself. It imports. All right? So..."
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"The answer is no. It's the silliest thing in the world. You have all these bases in the Middle East, but you cannot defend..."
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"...Okay? So, you have this absurd situation where Iran is a mountain fortress, where it can hide its offensive capacity, and the GCC, it's..."
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"...is much too big. Number two is that it is a mountain fortress, which means that you can hide your weapons and your military..."
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"Okay? Because it's just a desert. And Iran, it's a mountain fortress, so it can shoot rockets, it can shoot drones, at the GCC,..."
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