PNN – American media reports that Iran’s counter-response to the US and Israeli military aggression has challenged America’s initial calculations, not only in terms of intensity, but also in terms of geographical scope and operational effects, and has forced the country to take emergency measures on an unprecedented level.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network; The ABC news network admits in a report that the United States has made a serious error in estimating the dimensions of Iran’s response to the military aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime. According to senior US State Department officials, the intensity and scope of Iran’s retaliatory attacks against US and Zionist equipment and interests in the region were “unprecedented” and exceeded expectations.
The report emphasizes that with the beginning of the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, Washington was forced to launch one of the largest evacuation operations in wartime. In the first weeks of the war, the US State Department evacuated about 4,000 of its employees and their families from the region and at the same time helped more than 50,000 American citizens to leave, a figure that had not been previously published.
Despite ongoing security planning, several U.S. officials have acknowledged that the scale of Iran’s attacks on U.S. interests in the Gulf has been greater than expected. “Nobody could have predicted this magnitude,” one official said. Even on the eve of the war, some countries in the region had relations and talks with Tehran and did not expect to be targeted by this level of response, he said.
In the UAE, which the report claims was a “primary target” of Iran’s response, nearly 400 missiles and more than 1,800 drones had been intercepted by late March. However, many of the attacks hit their targets and resulted in casualties. The US consulate in Dubai was also damaged by a drone strike in the early days of the war.
The report also shows that in the first 24 hours of the war, Iran targeted the aggressors’ interests in nine countries, and by the end of the first week, the conflict had spread to 15 countries, a fact that US officials said reflected the unprecedented scale of the response.
In such circumstances, US embassies in the region faced serious challenges. In countries such as the UAE, the lack of adequate shelter infrastructure and staff living in glass towers had increased concerns. At the same time, the closure of airspace and the constant threat of missile and drone attacks complicated the evacuation process.
Nevertheless, the evacuation operation continued, and more than 60 evacuation flights were organized from the region. In some cases, ordinary US citizens were even placed on government flights. US officials were also forced to use unconventional methods to provide consular services, such as delivering passports in secret locations or in cooperation with other embassies.