The Yankee Imperialist War of Aggression on Iran – Day 14

Featured image: Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, in Tehran, 13 March 2026. Source: Reuters

As the second week of the Yankee imperialist war of aggression on Iran draws to a close, US intelligence reports are showing that the Iranian regime is not in any danger of collapse, making the Yankee imperialist dreams of a quick and easy war unlikely. As the blocked strait of Hormuz, including extensive damage to energy infrastructure throughout the region is creating long lasting ripples throughout the world economy, skyrocketing the price of oil, Iran is continuing to show that they are a military power not to be underestimated, defending itself successfully by dealing retaliatory blows to US and Israeli interests throughout the region.

Millions of Iranians flooded the streets of Iran today to mark International al-Quds Day supporting the just struggle of the Palestinian resistance and condemning the US and Israeli aggression, despite Israeli airstrikes striking targets close to the rallies, Tasnim News Agency reports.

The confirmed US casualties in the war of aggression of Yankee imperialism keeps rising, with the most recent being a result of a refueling plane allegedly “crashing” in Iraq, eliminating 6 US soldiers, leaving the acknowledged death toll so far at 14. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims that the number is much higher, at around 650 eliminated. So far the Pentagon has also confirmed that 142 US soldiers have been wounded, the two most recent being from an allegedly non-combat related fire onboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford, confirmed by CENTCOM.

In the same vein, Israel’s Health Ministry have announced that 2,745 Israelis so far have been hospitalized during the war of aggression, and that 14 have been officially pronounced dead.

During the last Yankee imperialist war of aggression on Iran, in the so-called Twelve-Day-War waged by the US lackey Israel, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), bourgeois military think tank, made an analysis on the depletion of missile defense interceptor inventory, concluding that “as missiles have become weapons of choice, missile defenses have become the table stakes of modern conflict. The recent THAAD, MSE, and SM-3 employment in the Middle East shows that current inventories and production rates of missile defense interceptors are insufficient. […] The Department of Defense can either ante up and buy the necessary interceptors to support those deployments, or fold on its regional interests and bear the consequences.”

The failure of the US missile defense infrastructure in the Middle East have been a constant thorn in their back, especially after the reports that Iranian missiles did significant damage to their THAAD Defense System last week, of which they have only 8 on a global scale, causing them to relocate the South Korean THAAD Defense System to the Middle East.

This deficiency is confirmed, and compounded by a recent report by the Financial Times, where they state that it is not only the defensive capabilities of the US that are depleting, but also its offensive capabilities, stating that “the Trump administration has burned through ‘years’ of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran, […] It is a ‘massive expenditure of Tomahawks’, […] ‘The navy will be feeling this expenditure for several years.’”

After the attack on one of Iran’s water desalination plants five days ago, Iran retaliated against a desalination plant in Bahrain. According to The Guardian, the Gulf States, and in general the States of the entire Middle East region are entirely reliant on these plants for access to potable water, stating that “70% of Saudi Arabia’s drinking water comes from desalination plants; in Oman the figure is 86%; the United Arab Emirates, 42%; and in Kuwait, 90%. Even Israel, which has access to the Jordan river, relies on five large coastal desalination plants for half its potable water.”

The IRGC have announced that the 43^rd wave of “Operation True Promise 4” was carried out against the Fifth US Navy Base and other bases of the terrorist US army in the region and deep inside Tel Aviv.

The death toll from Israel’s sustained attacks on Lebanon since March 2 has climbed to at least 687, according to Lebanon’s information minister, Paul Marcos, this comes as Israeli occupation forces carried out a deadly attack on a residential complex in the southern Lebanese city of Saida, murdering ten civilians and wounding several others.

Israeli airstrikes have also targeted Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, causing deaths and injuries.

Iran and Hezbollah have struck Israeli targets, with missiles striking the Kiryat Shmona settlement and the Galilee region in northern Israel, injuring around 80 people. A building in Kiryat Tivon near Haifa was also damaged.

Hezbollah announced that their operations targeted Israeli forces near Markaba, Khiam, Hamamis Hill, Khallet al-Asafir and the Kfar Jaladi quarry.

A Nova Democracia reports that “military police prevented an anti-imperialist demonstration in solidarity with the people of Iran and their resistance against the terrorism of US imperialism from taking place in front of the US consulate in Porto Alegre on March 9th.”