NEWSRAEL: If you read carefully the statements given in this report, you will see the deep contradictions throughout
The 12-day war with Israel exposed deep confusion in Iran’s defense establishment. On the one hand, Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh insists that missiles are no longer the sole priority and boasts of a “new strategy” to decentralize weapons production, scattering it across thousands of small factories.
At the same time, he continues to claim that Israel was so overwhelmed by Iranian missiles that it begged for a ceasefire—without explaining why Tehran itself agreed to stop fighting if it was supposedly on the verge of victory.
Nasirzadeh praised the cooperation of 8,000 private companies with the Defense Ministry, claiming local industry can meet all of Iran’s needs because foreign suppliers cannot be trusted. Yet, almost in the same breath, he admitted the war revealed serious weaknesses in air defense and radar—contradictions that highlight Iran’s inability to secure its skies despite its talk of “self-reliance.”