might not have been, they have a massively split military command between the normal army and the irgc, and the irgc really doesn't listen to the president. and don't just think land forces, iran has two air forces, two navies, two air defense forces, etc etc. you know all those issues the japanese had during ww2 between the army and navy? multiply that by about four and you've got the clusterfuck that is iran.
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