CENTCOM chief says US has destroyed 2/3s of Iran’s arms manufacturing facilities

Chief of the US Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, says the American military has struck over 10,000 targets in Iran since the start of the war, as part of which it destroyed two-thirds of the regime’s military production facilities.

“We hit the 10,000th Iranian target just hours ago. And if you combine what we’ve accomplished with the success of our Israeli ally, together we have struck thousands more, clearly demonstrating that we’re stronger together,” he says in a video statement.

Cooper says the strikes are having “tangible effects.”

“For decades, Iranian warships have roamed regional waters, threatening and harassing global shipping. But those days are over because we’ve now destroyed 92% of the Iranian Navy’s largest vessels. They’re not sailing, and my operational assessment is that they’ve now lost the ability to meaningfully project naval power and influence around the region and around the world,” he says.

Cooper notes that the rate of Iran’s missile and drone attacks has dropped by 90% since the start of the war. “And not only have we significantly degraded Iran’s naval, drone and missile capabilities, we’ve also removed the regime’s ability to rebuild them,” he says.

“We have damaged or destroyed over two-thirds of Iran’s missile, drone, naval production facilities and shipyards, and we’re not done yet,” Cooper continues.

“We are on a path to completely eliminate Iran’s wider military manufacturing apparatus,” he adds.