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To win the war another time, I guess ? To be fair, he told us we would get "tired of winning".

On a more serious note : could it be that iranian air defense is being supplemented by an ally ? Someone further east ?

Or, simply, that they kept some reserve to keep the war long, and play with the American customer's never ?

If your enemy loudly proclaims for decades that their strategy is to initially destroy AA capability then roam at will through clear airspace, presumably it doesn't take much imagination to plan to not reveal some proportion of your AA capability initially?

Iran has been preparing for this for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if they held a hidden reserve for air defense and let the USAF 'get comfortable' before redeploying

There was a ("propaganda") video by the Iran Forces some weeks ago showing some underground facilites: If even half of it is true shown there, then they have large capacities.

Even if they don't, US war planners now have to factor the possibility of hidden AA defenses in their risk calculus moving forward. So no matter what, a win for Iran to some degree

Why make up unsubstantiated claims about Chinese support, when it is known that Russia supports Iran with military hardware?

Russia's pretty busy with its own war.

But probably itching to do to the US what the US did to them in Ukraine.

(And doing so is likely to reduce US aid to Ukraine, as a bonus to them. Ukraine's certainly not likely to get Tomahawks and Patriots right now.)

What US aid? Trump's been stonewalling it for them just fine.

I said "did to", not "is currently doing to".

And what better way to support that by making some money selling weapons, especially if it gives you a chance to expand your manufacturing base due to increased demand?

Contrary to popular belief, Iran's most important arms supplier has been China, and not Russia, in the last decade. To preserve its ties with Israel and Saudi Arabia, Russia has sometimes compromised arm shipments to Iran. Historically too, Russia has worked with France and Britain to undermine Iran, through the Shah.

To be honest, I was thinking as much about Russia as about China, but I fumbled my geography by over-easting Moscow. Sorry.

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