{"id":343798,"date":"2026-05-15T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-irans-military-as-destroyed-as-trump-admin-suggests-experts-react\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:00:09","slug":"is-irans-military-as-destroyed-as-trump-admin-suggests-experts-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-irans-military-as-destroyed-as-trump-admin-suggests-experts-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Iran&#8217;s military as destroyed as Trump admin suggests? Experts react"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/hNelNWTblmg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Is Iran's military as destroyed as Trump admin suggests? Experts react\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNelNWTblmg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>One of the Trump administration\u2019s key talking points on the Iran war is that the Islamic Republic\u2019s military capabilities were devastated in US-Israeli bombing campaigns before the ceasefire began in April. <\/p>\n<p>But intelligence reports that have not been made public suggest Iran\u2019s military \u2014 in particular its missile capabilities \u2014 is not quite as destroyed as the US has made it out to be. <\/p>\n<p>CNN and The New York Times have reported that Iran retains much of its missile capabilities despite what the Trump administration has claimed. <\/p>\n<p>Retired US Navy admiral James Stavridis and retired US Army major general James \u201cSpider\u201d Marks evaluate Iran\u2019s remaining military readiness. Also, CNN national security Alex Plitsas discusses Iran\u2019s efforts to rebuild its missile readiness. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 What the Trump administration has said about Iran\u2019s remaining military capability<br \/>\n0:39 Former NATO commander says the intel report on Iran\u2019s readiness is surprising<br \/>\n2:00 Retired general James \u201cSpider\u201d Marks details Iranian missile tactics<br \/>\n7:12 CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas on US intel report <\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #Trump #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Trump administration\u2019s key talking points on the Iran war is that the Islamic Republic\u2019s military capabilities were devastated in US-Israeli bombing campaigns before the ceasefire began in April. But intelligence reports that have not been made public suggest Iran\u2019s military \u2014 in particular its missile capabilities \u2014 is not quite as destroyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[141889,134758,129382],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-343798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-administrations","tag-talking","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Iran&#039;s military as destroyed as Trump admin suggests? Experts react | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Is Iran&#039;s military as destroyed as Trump admin suggests? 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