The IDF has been doing a spectacular job in Iran. It has made 2,600 separate strikes and hit many major military-industrial sites that will take years to rebuild. And that “rebuilding” assumes that the IDF will not react by bombing those sites as they are being rebuilt, which of course is most unlikely. The IDF is ready both to “mow the lawn” and, if deemed necessary, to launch another major attack at any time on Iran’s military sites as ferocious as that of Operation Roaring Lion.
More on the IDF’s destruction of Iran’s military-industrial base can be found here: “IDF: It will take Iran years to rebuild its military industrial complex,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2026:
Even if the war were to end immediately, the damage that Israel and the US have inflicted on Iran’s military industrial complex will take years to rebuild, the IDF said Sunday.
At the start of the war, the IDF mapped out 2,600 Iranian military industrial sites.
So far, two-thirds to three-quarters of them have been destroyed by Israeli and US airstrikes, the IDF said.
For comparison, in October 2024, the IDF struck 14 military-industrial complex targets, and in June 2025, it struck about 100.
Currently, the IDF is focused on destroying an additional one-third to one-quarter as one of its highest targeting priorities….
That means that the IDF is determined to destroy every one of Iran’s military-industrial defense complexes. And it may well succeed — Iran no longer has any defense against IDF airstrikes — as long as the Americans don’t call a premature halt to hostilities, before Israel can accomplish the remainder of its mission.
Iran still has a few thousand of its ballistic missiles intact, but many of its missile launchers have been destroyed or rendered unworkable, which means that most of those missiles will remain in storage, unlaunched. 70% of Iran’s launchers have already been destroyed, and the IDF attacks those remaining just after they have launched a ballistic missile. The launch itself makes it easier for the IDF to locate them.
The IDF and the American air force have so weakened the Islamic Republic of Iran that it can now fire only one-twentieth the number of missiles it fired just two weeks ago. How long will it take, do you think, for that number to sink to zero?
The IDF does not want to hold out the false promise of being able to completely prevent Iran from increasing its attacks on the Jewish state. But it does say that the number of attacks will decrease still more. Iran fired 100 missiles a day at Israel on February 28; a few days later, that number had decreased to 20 a day, and now the Iranians have only been able to fire five missiles a day at Israel, one-twentieth of what it fired just two weeks ago. It doesn’t expect those missile strikes to end altogether, but to asymptotically approach zero.
If the Islamic regime remains in power, it will preside over a vast archipelago of ruin, with 2,500 military-industrial complexes destroyed, all of its missile launchers blown up, almost all of its ballistic missiles gone, its ballistic missile plants razed, its radars and anti-aircraft systems destroyed. And if the Americans decide to bomb the oil facilities at Kharg Island, depriving Iran of the revenue it has been receiving from the 90% of its oil that is exported through that island’s port, how will the impoverished Iranian government even start to rebuild any part of its military-industrial might, when almost all of that might has been destroyed?
Tony says
Shia Muslim Iran is obliterated, but Sunni Islam and Allah’s Muslims are islamizing the West with Sharia, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Further, Leftists help Muslims build taxpayer-funded Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations in Muslim Homes, Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, etc.to gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day[Non-Muslims]. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[in Islamic Law], nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have given the book[Jews and Christians] until they pay the jizyah[Extortion Payment] out of hand and they are subdued[disgraced].”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, and sunni islam is 90+% of world islam. Bad as IRGC/Hizbullah/Ansar allah/Kataeb Hizbullah are, the bulk of jihad comes from muslim brotherhood affiliates like al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas,…. as well as Boko Haram, Tabhlighi Jamaat, Taliban, Lashkar e Toiba, Jaish e Mohammed, Hefazat e Islami, Lashkar Jihad, Jemiah Islamiya, MILF (in the Philippines) and so on. All these groups are sunni
Talking about nukes, Turkey houses some in Incirlik, while Pakistan has theirs. I wouldn’t be so sanguine about sunni nukes
Taffy says
But…..according to the Iranian mouthpieces, the war is going great for them, and the brave soldiers of Iran have inflicted devastation on the Great Satan and the Little Satan.m including devastation of US carriers!
The U.S. public (and Congress) must support the United States in taking out this evil regime from both a militarily strategic and a humanitarian view. Failure to do so now, will allow the cancer to come back, thereby requiring aggressive steps to contain it in the future. Also, the faster Iran transitions to a democratic government, the faster trade channels will open and benefit the US economy. Iran is on the ropes being pummeled, but a TKO without an unconditional surrender kicks the can down the road for the U.S. to deal with in another 15-20 years. With 10% more effort, the U.S. can ensure that Iran and its Mullahs will NEVER be a threat to anyone again, including Iran’s civilian population.
Bexarkat says
“…years to rebuild.” And then what? If the islamist cancer is not removed and destroyed, it will grow and consume the entire body of Iran once again. Regime change must be the end goal. Restore anyone but a religious zealot to the throne…even a monarch.
gravenimage says
IDF: Iran’s Military-Industrial Complex Destroyed, Will Take Years to Rebuild
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Good to hear–but is this enough? Do we want Iran just as dangerous in a couple of years?
OLD GUY says
Sadly there are many companies and countries willing to sell them the equipment. It is always MONEY!
Controse says
The neat thing to keep in mind is that now Iran has no defense against attack from the air, if Israel is vigilant it will never, ever have any such defense. When one’s enemy has unrestricted air space access nothing of consequence can be done on the ground.