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Israel is flying right over those areas to get to Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Natanz, Mashhad, and nothing ever gets in their way. Probably because the SAMs were blown up Friday night. Israel doesn't have AGMs that can go all the way from Iraq to Tehran much less a place like Mashhad. It does have to fly into Iran with its planes, drones don't carry enough explosives for many of the explosions we've seen deep inside IranIran is a HUGE country, and they are likely to concentrate their most valuable AA assets in the middle of bumb-fuck nowhere, where no cameras will be filming.
The thing about AA is, if it works well, you never hear about it.
So they might as well not exist because they aren't going to be used except at the last extremity. How this does not decrease the strength of Iranian air defense is a mystery I guessYou're not going to use SAMs on drones, and probably not going to use them on planes if using them means your SAM site gets blown up. It is likely they have SAMs still, they're just not going to use them until they see a favorable or desparate situation. One plane at the cost of it for PR is not worth it at this stage.