Interestingly, Iranians are on the whole quite a bit more intelligent than Israelis, not to mention a lot more mentally tough.

  https://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/average-iq-by-country-2025-update/

This helps explain why Iran chose a much smarter strategy of creating and building in volume weapons which do not require high degrees of technical support on an ongoing basis as do aircraft, and instead developed missiles which outclassed the enemies' defensive systems and safely (and cheaply) stockpiled them.