Joachim Hagopian An October 27th Times of Israel reports that Israel’s IDF airstrike against Iran late Friday-early Saturday was a complete and rousing success: Israel’s widespread airstrikes in Iran on Saturday crippled Iran’s ability to produce long-range ballistic missiles in a blow that will be hard and time-consuming to recover from, and rendered crucial energy facilities vulnerable to future attacks by destroying air defense batteries protecting them, according to multiple reports citing Israeli, American and Iranian officials, as well as satellite images analyzed by experts. On Saturday night October 26th the Jerusalem Post headline boasted: ‘Backbone…