IRGC-ASF underdelivered compared to promises made before the war. lets not forget the commander of the IRGC-ASF (Hajizadeh) spent his final months telling everyone that no one will attack Iran and we should only worry on internal problems instead. and top IRGC generals spent years threatening to fire 10,000 missiles on Haifa and Tel Aviv within minutes, that Israeli jets would not have airbases to land on after attacking Iran, and Iran would destroy Dimona, and raza Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.
In conflicts such statements are norm by both sides. Israel was also
- Destroying Iranian nuclear sites, which they failed to do so. Strategic Failure.
- Wiping out Iranian Military + Political Leadership. Tactical failure because if the goal was to cripple IRGC then it just did not happen, CoC was re-established within hours and starting firing back in the heart of Israel to deplete the worlds most guarded airspace.
- They failed to garner support for targeting Mullahs, diplomatic failure.
- Regime Change plan, Strategic Failure
- Air superiority over Iran is a war time propaganda and nothing else. 2-3 jettisoned tanks and sound clips from the day SPICE PGM was launched is all we have for the evidence of "air superiority" over 12 days. 99% of the of the strikes came from Aeroballistics and ALCMs from Iraqi airspace which I have been pointing to is the problem for Iran. Remember US strikes on Iraq or Syrian war or more recent Ukraine theatre? hundreds of videos of jets flying over people's head would have come out had there been such a level of aerial invasion as Jews were painting it to be.
- Absolute failure of IDF to deter IRGCAF from targeting Israeli population centres which kept receiving Iranian strikes to the last minute before ceasefire.
War is like that, sides lie to appear superior. Israeli goals and narrative kept changing because they were also achieving nothing. Both sides failed miserable in the end.
Instead, they lost their entire C&C and best scientists of Iran within minutes, took 17 hours to respond, and were limited to launching 10-20 missiles per day from central Iran after 10 days, and quickly accepted an end to the war after only 12 days once Israel said it had achieved its objectives and stopped bombing.
You are expecting US standard efficiency from a ideologically built revolutionary, corrupt and dysfunctional system. From where I am seeing, it was actually quite surprising that CoC was re-established and started their wave after wave missile attack. I for one did not expect IRGCAF to pull this after Hajizadeh was gone. Not only they kept firing to the last minute until ceasefire, they just were not detered by Israeli action. Did they succeed in saving Iran? questionable
still, they maintained missile launches for 12 days despite Israeli air superiority over Iran and successful suppression of major SSM bases in West, and without that we really would have been defenceless.
Without proper nuclear umbrella, Iran with 500 SU-35 will still be defenceless.