U.S. Paratroopers Preparing To Land On Iranian Islands?

A military expert told us whether it was possible.

The US-Israeli operation against the ayatollahs' regime is continuing and entering a new phase. After strikes on Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz, Washington appears to be preparing to forcefully secure tanker passage and is increasing its military presence in the region, including transporting the USS Tripoli with a Marine expeditionary unit.

How can the US unblock the Strait of Hormuz in practice? Charter97.org spoke to Ukrainian military and political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko about this:

- I don't think the US as a whole will be able to effectively unblock the Strait of Hormuz itself for one simple reason. Iran has a fairly extensive stockpile of sea mines. And it is with sea mines that Iran can block the Strait of Hormuz by just chaotically booby-trapping it.

-I think that the operation to unblock the Strait of Hormuz itself would be as much of a failure for the United States as the entire Operation Epic Wrath. Therefore, I do not believe that the United States will be able to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, to establish a safe zone of navigation there. Especially since Iran has absolutely no interest in that, and it has enough tools to pose a threat in that fairly narrow location. I do not believe that the United States will succeed.

- Is a US ground operation against Iran possible against this background? What does it mean to move the USS Tripoli with the Marines?"

- If the US is preparing, it will be a limited operation, as there are 2,500 Marines on this versatile landing ship. 2,500 Marines in the realities of, for example, the Ukrainian war is about 2.5-3 days of active combat and losses of the Russian army.

- So if we are talking about some kind of all-armed land operation on the territory of Iran, this is critically insufficient, this is not enough, this is not an expeditionary corps.

- What can they be moved for? Most likely to control certain islands. The control of these islands, again, is predicated on control of the Strait of Hormuz. So it could be the island of Hormuz, it could be control of Keshma, it could be control of Larak - that is, those islands that are directly in the Strait of Hormuz and can guarantee cover for shipping.

But any small Marine Corps, three battalions in fact, is unlikely to be able to hold them for long enough in the stationary, maneuver-restricted space that is the islands, with constant shelling and strikes from Iran.

All the more so because most of the islands that are supposed to control the Strait of Hormuz or any other locations are in a direct hit zone from Iran. If such an amphibious landing were to take place on one of the islands, it could end fatally, shall we say, for that group of Marines.

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