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Thu · 05 Nov 2026

CENTCOM Commander: 20% of Iran Targets Untouched, Partial Campaign Pointless

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CENTCOM Commander: 20% of Iran Targets Untouched, Partial Campaign Pointless

🎖️ CENTCOM — The commander wants all-or-nothing, not a limited campaign. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Cooper's briefing reframes Thursday: not pause-or-resume but finish-or-forfeit. Epic Fury left 20% of targets intact — Iran's military baseline survives. Patriot depletion makes full resumption costly, but Cooper's logic is that limited bombing handed Tehran a survivable war. Variable: whether Trump treats this as grounds for resumption or Oman leverage.

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