On September 22nd, during an Iranian celebration of the start of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, two of the military aircraft flying over the event collided, and both crashed. The two pilots in the F-5 fighter ejected and survived, but the other aircraft, Iran's sole AWACS (radar command and control) aircraft, went down with all seven of the crew on board.
That does erase one inconvenient obstacle for an Israeli strike. If it even worked before the crash, of course.
You know, sometimes I just write a post for the sake of the title. Why women don't find that trait endearing I'll never know ...
