As Donald Trump's administration claims to have hit 9,000 targets in Iran during the nearly month-old bombing campaign, and U.S. Central Command avers that the Iranian Navy is in "irreversible decline" because its top commander has been killed, The New York Times reports that many of the 13 American military bases in the region are "uninhabitable" because of Iran's retaliatory drone and missile strikes.

The claims are not mutually exclusive. But the Times report dulls the shine that the administration is putting on the war it launched because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — former CIA agent John Kiriakou has said — threatened to nuke Iran if the United States didn't begin bombing.

That aside, U.S. personnel in the region are working remotely from multiple locations because Iran's strikes have rendered U.S. military bases worthless.

As recent developments go, President Trump has extended the deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants.

Rosy Picture

While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. has clobbered 7,000 targets, White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt added 2,000 more during a news briefing on March 25.

"More than 9,000 enemy targets have been struck to date," Leavitt said:

Compared to the start of the operation, Iran's ballistic missile attacks and drone attacks are down by roughly 90 percent.

The United States is also annihilating the Iranian regime's Navy.

We have destroyed more than 140 of their naval vessels, including almost 50 mine layers. This is the largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II.

Early yesterday, Admiral Brad Cooper, chief of U.S. Central Command, announced that an Israeli airstrike had killed Alireza Tangsiri, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. Tangsiri, 64, was a specially designated terrorist.

Cooper said the United States has destroyed 92 percent of the Iranian Navy's large ships, which means it can no longer "project power in the Middle East or around the world." He called on Iranian naval personnel to abandon their posts and go home to avoid being killed.

Those reports are all well and good, but they neglect to disclose what has happened to U.S. bases in the region.