Redacted: "Israel's IRON DOME is nearly FINISHED!" Dr. Gilbert Doctorow says Israel has 1 week left
Redacted: "Israel's IRON DOME is nearly FINISHED!" Dr. Gilbert Doctorow says Israel has 1 week left
It was a pleasure, after a break of several months, to rejoin Natali Morris and her husband on their interview program Redacted for a discussion of the Israeli-Iran war: its likely duration, global significance and the position on this conflict taken by other world powers including the USA, Russia, China and Pakistan.
Redacted is an enormously popular program in the United States, in Europe and, I imagine, in other parts of the world. The viewer numbers on this show are indicative of the interest that the moderators have developed in a loyal audience.
As one Comment mentions, the Israeli air defense is a lot more than the Iron Dome, which is intended to intercept short range projectiles. Other, higher altitude interceptors protect Israeli from ballistic missiles. The problem that few commentators discuss is that the supply of missiles for these air defenses is not unlimited. The Iranian wave attacks are depleting these interceptors so that the effective protection of Israel from incoming missiles may not last more than 10 days. If that is true, then Israel will not pursue the war beyond that point and Iran has already publicly stated that it will halt its attacks in turn.
Accordingly, there seems to be a lot of hyperventilating on the part of my fellow commentators. Moreover, the environmental threats from Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear installations are being blown out of proportion for purposes of sensationalism. The world is not facing a new Chernobyl disaster from Israeli bombing raids.
That being said, the direct entry of Washington into the conflict by supplying its heaviest bombs to Israel or, still worse, by flying B2s into Iran and destroying the underground facilities that are best protected, could create a broad regional, even global conflict. Nonetheless, this is all still a hypothetical risk.
In the meantime, the Russians, like the Chinese, are probably quietly supplying Teheran with air defense installations and other military materiel. One has to wonder how long it will be before the North Koreans offer to sell a bomb or two to Teheran. Why build when you can buy?
In any case, barring some dramatic development in the Iranian political structure, the balance of power in the Middle East between Israel and Iran is likely to continue to be a major issue in the region for years to come whatever the outcome of the present exchange of missile strikes and bombing raids.
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025