Security analyst Yair Goldblatt said there are reports of explosions in Iran but at very low intensity, and no statement from CENTCOM, suggesting the current strikes are pinpoint rather than the large-scale campaign Trump described. Goldblatt noted that pinpoint strikes were seen in southern Iran earlier today and that the main wave may still come tonight.
Security analyst Yair Goldblatt assessed late Tuesday that the current US strikes on Iran appear to be pinpoint operations rather than the 'powerful' wave President Donald Trump promised last night. Goldblatt, a security and Middle East analyst, cited reports of explosions in Iran at 'very low intensity' and the absence of a CENTCOM statement as indications that the strikes are not the large-scale campaign Trump described.
Goldblatt noted that pinpoint strikes were observed in southern Iran earlier Tuesday afternoon, and suggested that the main wave of attacks may still begin later tonight, as has been typical in recent nights. The assessment comes after Trump said Monday the US would strike Iran 'with force,' and after CENTCOM has conducted multiple waves of strikes over the past weeks.
As The Zioneer has reported, the US has been conducting daily strikes on Iranian military infrastructure since the collapse of the Islamabad memorandum, with Trump warning of 'hard daily strikes.' CENTCOM has not issued a statement confirming the current operations, which Goldblatt called 'fairly strange' given the declared intensity.
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