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#IRAN: Targets. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#IRAN:  Targets. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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0:00.0

I'm John Batscher with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCausen, the U.S. Army Retired

0:08.6

Artillery Men, CBS News, Visiting Professor Dickinson College, Diamond Six Six Leadership and Strategy.

0:14.4

There is a report from the Iranian side, the IRGC that the Russian military has transferred

0:22.2

an S400 unit to Iran along with what is said to be a

0:26.4

squadron of SU 35 fighter jets. There is no confirmation of this. It can be talked, but still it points to the pending

0:35.2

counter-strike by Israel against Iran. And preparing for that is preparing for dark days ahead.

0:43.0

Jeff, the target list has included the suspect nuclear weapons program,

0:47.5

particularly Fordow and Natans,

0:49.8

two places we know are centrifuge heavy.

0:54.4

It's also included the oil depots.

0:58.2

Either of those topics are not acceptable to the White House.

1:02.4

One, because you can't get any determination of what kind of damage you've done to centrifuges,

1:08.8

and there's no confirmation that it will stop, but there is that Iran would then go ahead and build a bomb and ignore the NPT.

1:15.4

The second is the worldwide price of all would suffer if the oil depots are taken out.

1:20.4

What is your target list, Jeff? We have a couple of minutes.

1:23.0

Well, my target list are those things.

1:25.0

Certainly, John, I would add to that, of course, the leadership,

1:28.0

and I would also add to that the conventional forces, airfields, missile sites,

1:32.0

the kind of targets that the Ukrainians or

1:36.6

extraction, the Iranians targeted when they struck the Israelis a week or so ago

1:42.1

or some combination of those things.

1:44.1

But I think deciding on the target for the Israelis is a question of a couple

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