Your assumptions are being real, i watch carefully and i can see Iran makes iranian F-5 optimized like candies, this is nice, Iran has somehow managed to produce all the items needed with the neccesary complex industrial fabric....
I trust on iranian power, it s needed to be more ambitious, i think it would very interesting if F-14 would be the chosen platform to initiate this journey, but F-5 with optimized avionics and IA to make them autonomous would be interesting, it s RCS is low, imagine a swarm of this warplanes.... they are like savage wolves.
Iran is going to surpass away turks advancements in next breaknews, i can see this optimized F-5 better than subsonic KILIZELMA,..., The qaher project is also interesting.