Life takes many turns and geopolitical relationships even more so. The recent con has reopened wounds of the ‘old world’ while Tehran debates whether to continue with Ali Khamenei’s son or a new, more open stage.
For now, the American and Israeli attacks continue with the . Along the way, in addition to numerous civilian victims, numerous military and government facilities of the ayatollahs are also being attacked.
The latest satellite images taken after an Israeli bombing show the destruction at an air base where some of the F-14 fighter jets that decades ago the US sold to Iran.
As , which has been done with images from the US Intelligence agency Vantor, the remains of at least two F-14 Tomcats are scattered around the Isfahan air basea key city south of the capital and in central Iran.
For the most movie buffs or for those who get lost in the complex world of military aviation, the F-14 Tomcat is the legendary aircraft of Top Gun. But in that bombardment, the Hebrew missiles also hit several F-7s, variants of the Chinese-made Ghengdu J-7 fighter.
Lot F-14 are—or were, in the case of the units bombed at the Isfahan base—testimony of the former alliance between Washington and the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlaviin the 70s a key support for the US in the Middle East.
As a result of their cooperation, a key air and military agreement was sealed to confront the influence of the USSR in the area in the 1970s. The US and Iran agreed to a order for 80 F-14A Tomcat aircraft. Most of these units were delivered before the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that ended the rule of the Shah and opened a new horizon of confrontations between the US and Iran.
