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The Iranians are not well advsnced, not at all. No offense, it is a whole thing.
They're one of a handful of nations that are able to put a satellite in orbit and they have hypersonic weapons that burgerland is still isn't able to procedure, but do go on.
Don't forget, we're supposedly bombing them because they are on the brink of nuclear capability. That's pretty advanced.
So advanced the Americans did it in the 40s
And the north Koreans beat them to it
Of course NK got it first, nobody was bombing their facilities at at regular intervals. You can make faster progress when you don't have to rebuild your entire program, including replacing all your dead scientists, every few years.
And so we did it in the 4Os, so what? Nuclear weaponry is still considered among the highest tech, and extremely dangerous, which is exactly why they wanted to bomb it.
They also have cool enough drone tech that they regularly get past Israel's impenetrable Iron Dome defense.
It kind of defeats your argument that they are technologically weak, when we are bombing them because we fear their technological strength.
Underestimating your opponent is one of the most classic moron military moves, and one America enthusiastically engages in, which is why we've lost most of the wars we've fought since WW2. When you don't take your enemy seriously, you don't fight them hard enough offensively or defensively, and you eventually lose.
Yeah they are. They're a theocracy, yes, but the theocracy made a point to maintain the scientific and engineering capacity they had prior. They've got women with barely any freedoms with PhDs and jobs using them. If you can't understand that you can't really assess their capabilities. What they lack is allies, water, and freedoms