SAEDNEWS: The 12-day war was one of the greatest defeats the Zionist regime suffered in its fabricated history. According to certain admissions from American and Israeli sources, this aggression was the result of a 20-year plan for an attack on Iran—one that ultimately ended in the enemy’s failure.
According to the Political Desk of SaedNews, reporting from Fars, the editorial of the 160th issue of the online newspaper published by the Office for the Preservation and Publication of the Works of the Leader of the Revolution wrote:
The 12-day war was one of the greatest defeats the Zionist regime has ever suffered in its fabricated history. According to admissions by some American and Israeli sources, this aggression was the result of a 20-year plan for an attack on Iran—one that ultimately ended in failure for the Zionist enemy.
The real scale of the regime’s losses—especially in the security and military sectors—has never been made public due to severe censorship. However, examining the confessions of Israeli officials and the internal reports of the regime’s media reveals part of the damage.
The intense wave of Iranian strikes forced the regime to impose heavy censorship. The Zionist newspaper Haaretz, in a report referring to the Iranian attacks, revealed that several sites hit by Iranian missiles were never announced by Tel Aviv, and that some researchers exposed them using satellite imagery. According to the paper, from the start to the end of the war, Iran fired a total of about 530 ballistic missiles in 42 waves.
These attacks inflicted massive damage on the Zionists. Data from Israel’s Tax Authority indicates that since the beginning of the war with Iran, over 41,000 damage claims were filed—approximately 33,000 related to residential homes, 4,100 to vehicles, and more than 4,000 to property and equipment.
The Tax Authority estimated the initial cost of residential damage at $1.3 billion, expected to exceed $1.5 billion. During this period, more than 18,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes, and emergency housing and services for them were estimated at about $500 million.
It should be noted that damage to government buildings—especially security and military facilities—is not included in this report and is not covered by the same assessment process.
Meanwhile, economic analysts estimate the direct and indirect costs of the war for Israel at $20–40 billion, including military expenses, missile defense, disruption of economic activity, losses from Iranian attacks, and reconstruction costs. According to Hebrew-language media, Israel’s average daily military expenditure during this period was about $725 million, reaching $8.7 billion, with more than $2.5 billion spent on the regime’s air-defense systems.
Economic disruption caused by widespread business closures and the paralysis of the tourism, high-tech, transportation, and service sectors created $1.5 billion in daily losses, reaching a total of roughly $18 billion.
Additionally, according to the regime’s own media, Iran’s missile strikes caused approximately $3 billion in direct infrastructure damage, including to the Haifa oil refinery, the Weizmann Institute, and military buildings in Tel Aviv, all of which require enormous and multi-fold reconstruction budgets.
Israeli analysts acknowledge that this war created one of the most severe humanitarian and economic crises in the regime’s history.
Giora Eiland, former head of the regime’s National Security Council, openly stated after the war that continuing the conflict was not in Israel’s interest.
These cases represent only a small portion of the losses Israel suffered in the 12-day war with Iran. Intense censorship in the occupied territories has prevented publication of the real statistics, but without such censorship, it becomes clear why Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire—and how its 20-year plan for war with Iran collapsed in just 12 days.
