The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Wave 93 of Operation True Promise 4 on Friday afternoon, claiming precision strikes on "Israeli assembly points and combat support centers" in western Galilee, Haifa, Kafr Kanna, and the Krayot region. [1] The operation employed what the IRGC described as "a sophisticated military mix" of solid- and liquid-fuel long-range guided missiles and one-way attack drones. [1] The wave was dedicated to "the late leaders Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin." [1]

The pace tells the story. On March 11, the New York Times assessed that Iran's retaliatory strikes "appeared to be slowing." [2] On April 1, Anadolu Agency reported that Iran had launched 6,770 missiles and drones since the war began on February 28, with the daily rate holding steady rather than declining. [3] Waves 91, 92, and 93 all came within a four-day window from April 1 to April 4, averaging more than two waves of combined strikes every 48 hours. [4] The IRGC's statement emphasized that "these strikes are part of an ongoing and systematic campaign" and that "operations will remain continuous and uninterrupted." [1]

CENTCOM has claimed a 90 percent reduction in Iranian ballistic missile launch capacity since the war's opening week. The wave count says otherwise. Either the remaining 10 percent is remarkably productive, or the 90 percent figure was never accurate. Either way, 93 waves in 36 days is not a country that has been disarmed.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem