“Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.” Micah 7:8 NASB “Share your fears with yourself and your courage with others.” – Franklin D Miller
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in this video we’ll be breaking down the massive air strike the US did on Iran yesterday the footage in this video is graphic and disturbing so viewers discretion is advised and don’t forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already we’re on our way to 400,000 subscribers so any support to help us reach that goal is greatly appreciated but with that let’s jump into this video for nearly 20 years the United States and its allies have worked to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons at the heart of this effort was the 2015 joint comprehensive plan of action better known as the Iran nuclear deal it placed strict limits on Iran’s enrichment levels uranium stockpiles and inspection protocols in exchange Iran received billions in sanctions relief but in 2018 President Trump withdrew the US from the deal calling it the worst agreement ever negotiated the sanctions were quickly re-imposed and Iran responded by ramping up uranium enrichment exceeding JCPOA thresholds and accelerating work on underground facilities one of the most concerning of these facilities was Foraux an enrichment site buried underneath a mountain designed to survive bunker buster bombs foraux became a symbol of Iran’s defiance earlier this year after months of relative calm Western intelligence agencies noticed a dramatic shift fresh concrete deliveries new ventilation shafts buried command centers and then came the radiation signatures spikes consistent with enrichment beyond 90% near weaponsgrade levels meanwhile Iran’s rhetoric sharpened iran’s supreme leader declared their nuclear program a divine right and IRGC commanders warned that Iran would soon have the power to erase Tel Aviv but the situation took a rapid turn for the worse when Israeli intelligence pointed towards Iran not just being somewhat close to having nuclear capabilities but actually being less than 60 days out from their first nuclear bomb and with Israel being the most likely target for Iran’s nuclear weapon they decided to take matters into their own hands on June 12th 2025 they launched a massive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities i covered this attack in great detail in my last video so I won’t go too deep into it here but I will link it on screen for those of you who missed it but Israel managed to inflict substantial damage to two out of Iran’s three nuclear facilities but unfortunately Israel lacked the firepower to take out Foro which is Iran’s best defended facility so the ball was tossed to the USA inside the White House situation room military planners laid out options they could do some smaller strikes on less valuable targets in hopes of pushing Iran towards a deal they could do some cyber attack operations against Iran or they could sit tight waiting for more evidence of the situation but ultimately President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegsth approved Operation Midnight Hammer a bold coordinated attack using what is arguably America’s coolest aircraft and their deepest penetrating bomb the goal of this operation was to send a clear message to Iran that the United States will not allow them to have a nuclear weapon the night of June 22nd 2025 began like any other in central Iran in Quam religious students studied late into the night in Isvahan workers returned home from the uranium processing facility just before curfew and deep beneath the earth under the hardened granite ceiling of Foraux thousands of advanced centrifuges spun silently in the dark but above that silence 40,000 ft over the Indian Ocean two B2 Spirit stealth bombers call sign Raven 71 and Raven 72 slipped undetected across the southern coast of Iran they had taken off nearly 20 hours earlier from Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri refueled midair over the Mediterranean and flew a looping arc to avoid radar detection from Russia and Turkey these bombers were carrying the most powerful non-nuclear munitions in the world the GBU 57 massive ordinance penetrator these bombs weigh 30,000 lb each they are over 20 feet long laserg guided and designed to break open the earth and punch through reinforced underground targets the details of just how deep underground this bomb penetrates is not publicly available at this time but is believed to be at least 200 ft underground meaning this massive 20ft long bomb will slam into the earth so hard that it travels 200 ft underground before even exploding the plan for Operation Midnight Hammer was precise and engineered down to the second iran’s radar systems were jammed by EA18G growlers loitering over the Persian Gulf simultaneously a cyber warfare team at Fort M executed a temporary blackout of air defense command links in Thran Shiraz and East Vahan at 2:32 a.m local time the first bombs dropped [Music] three GBU57s tore through the mountain above Foreaux the impact didn’t produce a traditional explosion it created a deep subterranean shock wave collapsing access tunnels imploding chambers and cutting power to the entire complex but the US didn’t just hit the Foraux facility despite Israel leveling Natans and Isvahan just 10 days earlier the US decided to circle around and hit both of those facilities as well just for good measure and so at 2:35 a.m just 3 minutes later more bombs hit Natans the symbolic heart of Iran’s nuclear effort this time though the goal wasn’t just penetration it was complete annihilation two GBU57s struck from near vertical angles designed to collapse the main centrifuge Cascade Hall and if that wasn’t enough just moments later Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Florida and the USS Georgia struck Natans’s surface power stations access control points and perimeter defenses but it didn’t end there at 2:40 a.m the city of East Vahan lit up like a second sun a combination of GBU31 JD dams and Tomahawk missiles smashed into its uranium conversion facilities destroying fuel rods and triggering secondary explosions as fuel tanks ruptured eyewitnesses later described it as a thunderstorm from beneath the earth car alarms went off for miles windows shattered in buildings within a mile radius of the explosion in satellite photos taken just 6 hours later the outline of one of Iran’s largest centrifuge halls was simply gone reduced to a crater filled with twisted steel but what made this strike so extraordinary wasn’t just its firepower it was its choreography each phase of Operation Midnight Hammer was timed to prevent cross-target redundancy and to paralyze Iran’s ability to respond in real time foraux was struck first crippling Iran’s most fortified site natans followed close cutting into its most productive enrichment line and is Fahan came last degrading both fuel supply and missile engineering infrastructure american planners even accounted for seismic waves using classified algorithms to calculate overlapping underground collapses a senior US defense official was quoted saying “This wasn’t just a message this was a mathematical solution to a nuclear threat for nearly eight minutes the Iranian military said nothing no air defense launched no retaliation ordered no radar signals processed by the time Iran’s command centers pieced together what was happening the last US aircraft was already heading south masked by electromagnetic interference and a cloud cover by 300 a.m Operation Midnight Hammer was over the bombers had escaped the missiles had landed and Iran’s nuclear program had been knocked backward possibly by years the world awoke to silence but inside Iran smoke rose from some of its most secretive facilities above ground it was devastation below ground it was even worse as the sun rose over Iran on the morning of June 22nd the reality of the night’s destruction was only just beginning to settle in three of the Islamic Republic’s most critical nuclear facilities Fordau Natans and East Vahan had all been struck with shocking precision and for the first time in decades the Iranian homeland had been hit directly by American long- range strategic bombers in Thran the government’s first instinct was denial at 8:13 a.m local time a government spokesperson appeared live on Press TV calling the strikes a failed act of aggression claiming only minor structural damage and no casualties but satellite imagery told a different story foreign journalists who were conveniently restricted from site access used Maxar and Planet Lab satellite data to show visible cratering at Foraux widespread blackouts around Natans and fires still burning in East Vahan’s industrial zone at 9:45 a.m Iran’s foreign minister took to the podium and dropped all pretense what the United States has committed is not a military operation it is a heinous crime a violation of every principle of international law we do not seek war but we will retaliate and our retaliation will be everlasting those final words retaliation will be everlasting immediately echoed through Iranian media and were reposted by Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen within minutes iran’s supreme leader usually measured in his early responses released a rare sameday statement declaring “We have endured pain before but this blow will not go unanswered the enemies of Iran will learn once again that we are a nation of endurance not surrender.” Inside the IRGC’s central command Iran’s military wasn’t just planning speeches it was mobilizing ballistic missiles were moved out of hardened shelters air defense radars were repositioned around Tyran naval fast attack boats began swarming in the Strait of Hormas on alert but not yet engaging iran’s cyber units began probing Israeli infrastructure American oil and gas networks and GCC telecom assets but Iran also knows something critical washington is watching for the counter punch another strike another missile test another proxy attack any of these could provoke a second wave of US strikes so instead of responding immediately Tyran played a longer game the fear of escalation rippled globally oil prices spiked 8% overnight insurance rates for tankers in the Persian Gulf surged and global markets braced for the possibility that this wasn’t the end but the opening move in a larger confrontation iran had been hit hard and while the flames of the explosions may have died down the political firestorm they ignited was just beginning the world reacted with shock and deep division the United Nations Secretary General called the strikes a perilous turn and urged immediate deescalation russia and China to no one’s surprise condemned the operation outright the UK and France urged restraint but acknowledged the need to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands back in Washington battle lines were drawn when the president speaks the world should pay attention said Defense Secretary Pete Hegsth but some Democratic Party leaders accused the administration of bypassing Congress and risking a new war but in the end what did Operation Midnight Hammer actually achieve according to US intelligence the strike set back Iran’s nuclear program by at least 18 months potentially destroying hundreds of advanced centrifuges and damaging underground labs but the strikes also served a broader purpose reaffirming America’s commitment to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands but that success comes at a hard cost iran may still retaliate hard so now the world is waiting and watching closely will Iran launch missiles at US bases in Iraq or Syria will Hezbollah respond in Lebanon will oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz come under threat again and perhaps most importantly will this be the first strike in a much longer war or the last warning before diplomacy resumes this was America’s most direct attack on Iranian soil in decades and the fallout is only just beginning but I want to hear what you guys think about this down in the comment section below as always thank you guys for watching like the video if you enjoyed it and I will see you guys in the next
