recently said that if the Americans ever attack Iran, the outcome will be determined entirely in naval duels. “If for any reason the Americans decide to attack Iran and we go to war, the fate of the war will be decided in this [naval] arena as American power [in the Persian Gulf] is based on their naval force. Due to the great distance of their territory from our land, all American ground and air forces are located on their ships,” he said. Actually, the United States Air Force has planes at a huge base in Qatar and other aircraft elsewhere in the region, while the Army has 13,000 troops in Kuwait. Furthermore, US B-52 and B-2 bombers are not based in the region. In the two wars against Iraq, the B-52s flew to Iraq from Guam in the Pacific and the B-2s flew in from Missouri. They turned around and headed home after their bomb runs without ever landing in the region. Is Fadavi truly ignorant of these facts?
