This is John Batcher, conversation with colleague Benham Ben Telabu Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

about his testimony before the Ausan Foreign Affairs Committee and also commenting on the attack on Israel

over these last days. In this particular moment he assesses the failure

rate of the Iranian barrage, how they failed and where.

Also, looking at how much of their arsenal was expended on Saturday night, their various numbers that are being tossed around.

This is Benamantalboo talking about the first instance of the barrage.

How many got through, how many failed, how they failed. the first instance of the barrage.

How many got through, how many failed, how they failed.

What else is in the arsenal that can follow through?

I do believe, based on Western military officials unnamed who were quoted by the Western press that weekend

April 13, April 14 that there was a significantly high failure rate, not just evidenced by in the

immediate launch cycle, but in the boost to mid-core's phase of the flight.

So hypothetically, when the body of a missile is supposed to drop and the warhead continues,

they all drop together.

Or during the boost phase, when the missile goes up immediately and powers itself,

it then immediately, you know, collapses on itself and comes down.

One number was as high as 50%.

It could have been that they wanted to fire a greater amount, but I actually think the

Iranians still reserved a great portion of their strike force.

I mean, there is a comment right now you may see flooding around from the former

Sencom commander General McKinsey that says that Iran has essentially expended most of its

medium-range ballistic missiles. If you take that to be true

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