More time consuming and expensive than the S-300 battalion that follows Supreme Leader every time he leaves Tehran?
I’ll tell you something they wouldn’t be putting the Supreme Leader of Iran on a 1960’s bell helicopter these days. I’m not sure he even flies anymore to be honest.
Well that’s great confidence in Iranian communications systems.
I guess all our fancy drones are grounded because they are needed for Salami and Hajizadeh to walk in front of them for dramatic music effect in their next music video.
These are the Iranian equivalent of rednecks. Nothing they do is by the books. Nothing they do goes with protocol. That is why so many of them die.
But it actually leads to a more efficient Islamic Republic and military, because all the individuals with a death wish eventually meet their maker and the ones that take security operations and safety protocol seriously survive to rise to the top.
It’s Darwinism at its finest.
- Tehrani Moghdam father of Iran’s missile program, notorious for skirting safety regulations to the point many on his team quit and went to other teams died in 2010 static discharge blast at base outside of Tehran
- Fakhrizadeh father of Iran’s atomic weapons program, ignored the advice of his elite security team detail and went outside of the Tehran when threat level was very high that day and was assinated by an Mossad operated turret. Also was driving an unarmoured beaten up car.
- Solemani father of Iran’s foreign legion and architect of Axis of Resistance - ignored security protocols routinely and was caught using Nokia phones as his method of communication and loved going to frontlines of battles when safety was not assured.
The list goes on, but this type of thinking just runs in Iranian circles and usually they end up dead sooner rather than later.