Belmont Club: Cracking The Mosaic Defense

<![CDATA[The showdown came as no surprise to Tehran. The Islamic Republic (IR) had long readied itself for war against the conventionally superior U.S./Israel coalition by adopting what has been called the Mosaic Defense or the Defa-e Mozaiki in Persian. It aims to win with a strategy designed to make the IR virtually unkillable. It is the product of experience in fighting Israel both directly and through proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas for decades.]]>