Tom Grant

Tehran’s bitter winter had penetrated the dungeon and left the frail inmate shivering with cold. Houshang Asadi, a communist dissident, took pity on his cellmate and gave him his sweater. The man refused it at first before tearfully accepting the gift. “Houshang,” the man said, “when Islam will come to power, not a single tear will be shed.”

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That memory of Ali Khamenei in 1975 as an idealist who suffered for his opposition to the Shah stayed with Asadi for decades to come. Years later, in 2003, Khamenei, now the undisputed dictator of Iran who threw young men and women into those same dungeons, repaid Asadi’s kindness by forcing him into exile.

“He changed from a man who fought for freedom into a dictator,” Asadi told an interviewer. “Now Mr Khamenei is more of a dictator than a shah.” If he met him again, he said, he would ask: “Who are you, Mr Khamenei?”

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Elis James is getting married! Organising events does not come naturally to Elis so thank goodness lover of organisation tools, John Robins, is best man and here to relieve some of the stress by organising the stag.

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The vast and limitless potential of Iran’s capacity to strike Israel would soon become clear. Any previous attacks on the old enemy had merely been “minor demonstrations” before Tehran’s war machine swung into full gear.

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That, at least, is what Hossein Salami, the architect of Iran’s missile programme, would have had us believe before the tumultuous events of the past five days.

Yet the regime’s response to Israel’s operation, Rising Lion, has underscored the limitations of Tehran’s missile programme. Many of its missile sites were destroyed before Iran even fired a shot in response.

What was left has so far been used with devastating effect, levelling apartment blocks and killing at least 24 people over three days in a series of strikes that have pierced Israel’s much-vaunted protective shield, the Iron Dome defence system. Iran, however, cannot maintain the intensity of these attacks which, in turn, have little to no impact on Israel’s ability to strike back at will.

Israel estimates Tehran has launched about 300 missiles so far, while an undisclosed but probably significant number were destroyed in air strikes and sabotage operations during the first few hours of the war. Tehran has been left with little way to defend its missile sites from airstrikes and the production of new weapons will be difficult as the stockpile dwindles by the day.

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