Context for the video ? Are these Iranian F14s?
Question: how did Iran come to obtain F14s?
According to Wikipedia:
Having been exported to Pahlavi Iran under the Western-aligned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1976, F-14s were used as land-based interceptors by the Imperial Iranian Air Force. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force used them during the Iran–Iraq War.
Follow up question: How did they keep the buggers running without OEM parts for nearly 50 years?
Mostly through turning others into parts. Their F-14 fleet shrinks every time they put a flight-hour on one.
Iran was Western-aligned during the Cold War. When the Shah’s authoritarian regime was overthrown in 1979, Iran kept the military hardware that the US supplied the Shah with.
Is it necessary to commit blasphemy sometimes?
Possibly, but this is just Israel being Israel.