Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی
These boats, hidden in coastal facilities or tunnels, and sometimes concealed amid civilian maritime traffic, are hard to detect in advance or neutralise pre-emptively.
They achieve an important objective: psychological deterrence, by deepening the sense that a threat may emerge at any moment and from any direction.
Geography gives them a significant tactical advantage: they can surge towards their targets, whether commercial or military vessels, then withdraw before opposing forces can respond effectively.
Iran doesn't need to sink an American aircraft carrier, but to draw the US into a protracted war of attrition and drain its resources.
When confronting a more powerful adversary, smaller nations aim not to beat but to exhaust their enemy, both physically and financially.
Tehran uses low- to medium-cost tools that can be deployed in large numbers to deplete America's costly arsenal.
They achieve an important objective: psychological deterrence, by deepening the sense that a threat may emerge at any moment and from any direction.
Geography gives them a significant tactical advantage: they can surge towards their targets, whether commercial or military vessels, then withdraw before opposing forces can respond effectively.
Iran doesn't need to sink an American aircraft carrier, but to draw the US into a protracted war of attrition and drain its resources.
When confronting a more powerful adversary, smaller nations aim not to beat but to exhaust their enemy, both physically and financially.
Tehran uses low- to medium-cost tools that can be deployed in large numbers to deplete America's costly arsenal.