By WESLEY HUDSON
The war plan, codenamed Theatre Iran Near Term (TIRANNT), is believed to be the blueprint for a strike paving the way to crush the country’s power base within 24 hours. A war on Iran has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board for more than ten years. The leaked plans have reemerged amid rising fears of an imminent conflict after Tehran’s missile and drone strike on Saudi Arabian oil plants.
Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher examined the blueprint on how the US attack would unfold.
Their study concluded: “The US has made military preparations to destroy Iran’s weapons of mass destruction, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours.
“Any attack is likely to be on a massive multi-front scale but avoiding a ground invasion.”
The blueprint shows Iran’s nuclear plants and facilities would likely be destroyed first.
A leaked 'war plan' shows the US could devastate Iran (Image: Getty Images)
A war on Iran has been on the Pentagon's drawing board (Image: Getty Images)While conventional weapons would be used instead of nukes, the attack would still crush Iran’s military strength in little more than a day.
Under TIRANNT, cruise missiles would be unleashed from ships in the Gulf and bombs dropped from B52 and B2 warplanes.
More than 10,000 targets would be battered according to TIRANNT plans.
Planes could fly from the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.
Mohammed Javad Zarif claimed the US already started a cyber-war with Iran (Image: Getty Images)There is currently only one US Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Gulf, the USS Abraham Lincoln.
TIRANNT plans to highlight how six carrier groups can be dispatched off Iran’s coast at just a month’s notice.
The intensity of the air raid would mirror the “shock and awe” tactics used on Iraq in 2003.
This attack method saw the country’s defences crumble before an invasion swept dictator Saddam Hussein from power.