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Why the US may find Iran’s air defence system harder to break than Venezuela’s

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2026年1月14日
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Why the US may find Iran’s air defence system harder to break than Venezuela’s

A bit more than a week after the United States abducted former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a raid on Caracas, US President Donald Trump is threatening military action against Iran, which is seeing a massive wave of anti-government protests.

Yet unlike Venezuela, a strike aimed at taking out the Iranian leadership could prove harder, given that Iran’s more sophisticated air defence system is also reported to be integrating China’s most advanced exported technology.

On Tuesday, Trump wrote on his social media platform that Iranian authorities would “pay a big price” for the killing of civilians and urged people in the country to “keep protesting”, adding that “help is on its way”.

The protests in Iran – deemed the largest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution – have been intensifying in the past week with the reported death toll ranging between 2,000 and 12,000.

One of the key moments that determined Maduro’s fate was the failure of the Venezuelan air defence system, which consisted of Russian-made long-range S-300VM and medium-range Buk-M2E surface-to-air missile systems.

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According to US media reports, these systems were neutralised by US strikes and electronic warfare using EA-18G Growler aircraft.

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