...By the end of March 5th Iranian ballistic missile attacks had diminished by 90 percent, drone attacks were down by 83 percent....During the first week of air operations against Iranian security forces the IRGC has lost about 15 percent of its personnel to desertion, with some of those men leaving with their weapons and joining the armed rebel groups forming inside Iran. Another one percent of IRGC men have been killed and few percent more wounded....IRGC\Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which normally consists of about 120,000 members. The volunteer Basij militia has up to half a million armed members and the Iranian army, navy and air force comprise about 400,000 active duty personnel.
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