How the U.S. Military CRUSHED Iran's Air Defenses and Leadership

So breaking news on the Israel and US military strikes on Iran. Deep and major coordinated strikes, Operation Epic Fury on the US side, Operation Roaring Lion from Israel. The pre-dawn waves have hit military sites, missile bases, nuclear facilities around Fordow, Natanz, Istanbul, and especially leadership compounds in Tehran and beyond. This video will be focused on the explosive strikes on Iran's IADs, their integrated air defense systems, for you acronym lovers. Explosions are lighting up downtown Tehran near the government buildings. Smoke plumes are everywhere.

Air raid sirens are going off nationwide. Obviously the death throes of the Iranian regime. But in this one, we'll be breaking down exactly how the death throes of the Iranian regime. But in this one we'll be breaking down exactly how the US and Israel took down the integrated air defenses of Iran to basically now strike with impunity and chop the head off the snake of that evil regime. President Trump dropped on

Truth Social saying a massive and ongoing military operation to wipe out missiles, nuclear threats, and regime capabilities. Israel said this is pure pre-emptive survival, protecting Israel from a regime that wants the destruction of the US and Israel. Iran's air defenses are being crushed first and then surgical strikes on the top military

brass. But, it looks like right now now if the top brass lays down their weapons they will have the ability to become a part of the future of Iran. If right now they actually lay down their weapons and come to the right side of history. So stay to the end of this video because I'll give you a hypothetical on how all this will likely play out plus the proxy armies, the proxy militias, what

are they doing right now and what will they be doing across the world here in the next few weeks? And then this breaking news right now coming in the US and Israel launching that attack on Iran. President Trump calls this major combat operations.

Israel's defense minister says that this is a preemptive attack. And in response, Iran has launched targeted strikes against Israel and other sites in the Middle East, including Bahrain, where the U.S. has a major naval presence, specifically focusing their Shahed drones on Bahrain.

But here is the core of what's happening. Coordinated operation early Saturday morning on the Iranian regime after months of joint planning. The IADS, Integrated Air defense systems, need to be struck down and taken out first. And then the infrastructure, the nuclear related sites, Israel's roaring lion is leading the charge against the actual leadership itself, likely vaporizing the Ayatollah and top leadership already. That remains

to be seen. We're still getting reports rolling in on that. But the targets are spanning across all of Iran's regime's nuclear sites. Command nodes, but mainly their ballistic missile launchers as well, with actual footage coming in right now of the ballistic missile launchers being struck. Secure bunkers likely being struck as well. And again, the Ayatollah has been known to go into the bunkers underneath the city. Time and time again he does that. They actually call him the rat. The free people of Iran call him the

rat. So if you strike down those bunkers, you take down the different entrances and the different vent shafts, now that dude has no chance of survival and that's likely what Israel is doing at this point right now. A multi-day, maybe multi-week, sustained campaign is in motion. Hundreds of fighter jets, carriers launching fighter jets, regional bases launching Air Force assets like F-15s, F-35s, A-10s,

and then Gulf allies handling interceptions on the incoming missiles themselves. Early reports show heavy disruption to Iranian military control but at this point this is a very fluid situation. This is layered, synchronized air power at its peak and this is what the US military was designed for. This type of synchronized approach to take down the IADs, integrated air defense system, and allow the leadership to be struck because again you can't take down

the targets inside of Iran if the IADS, the integrated air defense systems themselves aren't taken down. This is essentially straight out of Independence Day, a coordinated assault hitting every critical point of the Iranian regime. That's the main goal. Iran's IADS, that's the main obstacle. It's a patchwork of S-300s, Bavar 373s, Ghadir radars, and then shorter range SAMs. But this was already heavily damaged in June of 2025 during the 12-day war,

but Iran had a lot of time to build it back up. They've been trying to rebuild every single day, also using Chinese hardware. Likely China inserted a lot of different radar systems that they claim could take down stealth assets remains to be seen but again that is Not a small obstacle and there's no easy day You can't discount the enemy Iran's been rebuilding this for months so now at this point

it's all on the coalition to take down this patchwork of integrated air defenses and Likely the way that that happens is first starting with tomahawk missiles flying from submarines flying off of the different destroyers and then teaming that up with cruise missiles launching off of B-52s. This is likely one of the main ways that the integrated air defense systems were targeted the IADs striking down the different assets along the coast that would be trying to shoot down stealth assets, shoot down fourth generation fighters.

So the way that this goes is likely cyber attacks happen first. Cyber attacks going in, disrupting the communications, potential space assets, helping with the initial operation and then rolling in with F-35s. F-35s leading the charge, looking for any of these integrated air defense systems and radars that are going to turn on. You get some IRGC commanders that know this is their last and final moment and they're just going to do a

spray-and-pray shooting as many of these missiles as possible at different air assets. And fourth-generation fighters can be susceptible to this. So F-15Es, F-16s, F-15Is, the different fighter jets that are going to roll in in subsequent waves after the different F-35s and F-22s, fifth-generation fighters go in. Now you have to make sure the fourth-generation fighters are protected. But the US Air Force has F-15Es that can help sniff out

these different radar sites. Also EA-18G Growlers, electronic attack aircraft, very capable aircraft that can find these different sites to strike them down because you can strike down the initial wave of these things but then you have to remember that they can turn back on or they can be some remote sites that aren't connected to the major command and control systems of the IRGC and you have to make sure when those turn on

that you have the ability to protect the fourth generation fighters specifically. But IRGC commanders like Mohammad Pakpour have reportedly been hit in the opening waves. Ayatollah Khamenei's status is unclear. Some reports say he's cut off from contact.

Others claim he's alive in a bunker. But leadership is raging right now in Iran and they're vowing crushing retaliation, of course. But right now they're focused on their own survival and they're on their heels. They're put back on their heels,

but it all starts with that takedown of the integrated air defense systems. Likely these first salvos completely overwhelmed Iran's defenses and Iran is not gonna say that but their air defense net is getting shredded faster than wet paper right now at this point literally punching through like a wet paper bag after those pre

dawn strikes and the defenses of Iran look to be collapsing on a level that is the worst nightmare of the Iranian regime. The shock value right now is high air dominance established extremely quickly is what it looks like. Likely low attrition from the US and Israel side. We don't have any reports yet of any fighters being targeted and the leadership strikes are described right now as very high success. That's the reports I'm seeing coming in by Israeli sources. The Ayatollah

Khamenei's compound has been completely hit. We don't know if it's completely evaporated yet Pazeshkian, the president of Iran is targeted as well. So he could be gone also. Of course Iran is gonna put this out We don't know the validity of it But the state media of Iran is saying that 50 girls have been killed at a school We don't know the source of that. but again Iran is gonna put this out for weeks so I'm just letting you all know that the Iranian propaganda machine is gonna go into full overdrive and they're gonna

try to say that it's all civilians being hit. Now again in warfare things could happen like this so we don't know the exact validity of this claim. Also Iran putting C2 command and control IRGC headquarters, using civilians as shields is definitely a possibility as well. The airspace in the region has been shut down. President Trump and all of America literally calling for the Iranians to overthrow the

regime right now. The US is leading with carrier groups, the USS Gerald R. Ford, again, that one is loaded to the teeth with F-18s, EA-18G Growlers, and also USS Abraham Lincoln has F-35s and F-18s. And in the region at multiple bases, US Air Force F-35s, F-22s, and B-52s,

likely all in play in different roles. And those B-52s, those are some serious beasts of an aircraft, loaded down with JASMs, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, launching from hundreds of miles away, hitting the Ayatollah himself, hitting Pazeshkiyan, the actual president who's the marionette puppet of the Ayatollah, Gulf allies intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, Israel handling the precision

leadership package strikes which have likely been built over the last few months. And this is necessary at the end of the day to protect America and give Iranians a safe future. Coalition is showing that this is furious and serious total air dominance flexing minute to minute getting more intense every single minute. The key platforms here dominating the headlines, F-35 Lightning IIs, F-22 Raptors,

which are in Israel itself. Stealth penetration for seed, suppression of enemy air defenses, and that's the focus of this video. The suppression of enemy air defenses is a layered approach. B-52s delivering standoff JDAMs, cruise missiles, Tomahawk salvos from

naval assets hitting fixed sites. Israel specifically using that F-35I Adir for deep surgical work. Iran's remnants, their Bavar 373s, S-300s are now overmatched by the overwhelming force of stealth with the F-35s, the ability of the F-35I and the ability of US F-35s to go in and target the air defenses that will just turn on, right? They could be detached from actual C2 command and control, so going in and striking those detached ones as well, and the Aegis destroyers teaming up with the radars of the F-35s and the F-22s to find all

the different surface-to-air missile sites that are gonna turn on. But if you chop the head off the snake continuously with Pozhetskiyan, the actual president being targeted, it's being said now that the defense minister of Iran has been taken out.

So now with the command and control taken down, you can now have all these different systems talk to each other and just overwhelm the entire IADS, integrated air defense systems, and what that will do is knock down all the different SAM batteries that are going to try to turn on and strike down the different aircraft. So we've got stealth aircraft that have standoff capability, so the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile has standoff capability to launch from hundreds of miles away and you team that up with cyber attacks and this is a layered

nightmare for Iran and its leadership. This right now reminds me of Iron Man high-tech precision versus the old-school regime of Iran that is now being put into tatters. Cyber attacks happen first disrupting command links radar feeds to create basically blind spots in Iran's military. Then, Tomahawk cruise missiles from ships and subs will slam into those fixed SAM sites

and early warning radars, that's likely what happened this morning and will continue to happen throughout today. F-35s, F-22s, following up with HARM missiles, those are anti-radiation missiles to kill active emitters. Electronic warfare jamming the Ghadir networks, covert loitering munitions.

Tomahawk missiles can now go up and loiter and use AI to strike down the different IAD sites. They could be hovering over those sites waiting for them to turn on and then advance drones. So think even Andralall Fury drones, Shield AI expat drones could be involved,

or even legacy MQ-9 Reapers, RQ-4 Global Hawks is sitting up there watching the eyes in the sky ready to pass intel to the F-22s, the F-35s, and the B-52s to take out key command nodes on the ground. B-52s providing volume on targets. So again, if the president of Iran is still alive, hasn't been evaporated yet, they will be

soon due to those B-52s overwhelming force. And the B-52s striking the different remnants of the Ayatollah's bunkers is likely what's happening right now as we speak. Intelligence timed precision munitions on the different leadership compounds, vehicles, and bunkers. Iran is being struck with the overwhelming force of the American military and their evil regime is being met with overwhelming shock and awe. This is a surgical playbook that is

integrated and brutal. This is a chess match of epic proportions and that moves us to the 4d chess section. Strategically, strike hard, strike fast, shatter the command before they can react. The whole goal is to cripple the IADs, integrated air defense systems, for sustained operations that will likely see take place over the next week. Decapitation strikes on the leadership to sow chaos and pressure any remnants of the regime any top leaders of the IRGC and army to let them know that they have no chance

and they have to now become a part of the future of Iran. It looks like there's an off-ramp for them. Top generals now have an off-ramp with the integrated air defense is being struck down no protection of the Ayatollah and his Golden Palace and his Golden Crapper, hopefully these top IRGC members and top army members in Iran will now come to the side of the free Iranian people.

At this point, we're now betting on internal fracture because the entire leadership is being destroyed. So if any remnants of the leadership want any chance of survival, they now have to come to the side of the free Iranian people. At this point Israel and the US want these threats gone for good. Iran's play though is going to be proxies and asymmetric hits likely trying to activate their proxies right now as we speak but they've lost their

covert cover. They've lost their ability to protect the regime and direct those proxies in Iran. So their capabilities have likely been massively degraded, even the regime itself in potential full collapse mode. Leadership chain and the communications of the leadership to their proxies and to their integrated

air defense systems look to be broken. This is full 4D chess shock and awe, overwhelming force on the IADs to force the endgame of the regime. So let's move to a hypothetical situation of what we could see play out over the next week or so. So leadership decapitation will likely be confirmed if it hasn't been already by the time this video being released. Likely Khamenei and key IRGC top leaders are likely gone.

At this point a power vacuum will potentially trigger some sort of infighting if the people of Iran now step up and start to take back their government. That infighting will likely not last very long, but we'll likely see street protests erupt in Tehran as they start to take down the IRGC members who have been slaying the population in Iran for the last few months. We've even seen over the last few days prior to these strikes taking place, the protests

happening at the universities have flared up to a level that we haven't seen before. So now all the different people that have been protesting at the universities and on the streets of Tehran now have the chance to take back their country. But we'll likely see the proxies go all in at least for a while. Hezbollah will potentially unleash thousands of rockets. Houthis might even try to help mine the Straits of Hormuz and the US is calling on China to help keep

Iran from shutting down the Straits of Hormuz. They're basically saying, hey China, step in if you want to keep the flow of oil flowing to China because China is the number one buyer of the oil from the Iranian regime. So the US is saying, hey China, if you want to keep that oil flowing, come in and help

us keep the Straits of Hormuz open. Iraqi militias will likely start to swarm US bases in the area. Iran has a lot of influence over Iraqi militias. So they've put a lot of energy and investment into these militias to try to sow any type of chaos they can in the area.

But the US has overwhelming shock and awe, and the US has the ability to take on these proxies as well. The US will likely escalate, and they'll match those proxies' aggression with even more shock and awe. So think more waves flowing off the carrier, B-52s pounding the bunkers

in Iran of Iranian leadership. But now Russia and China have the ability to make this less of a hit on the world's oil supply. They could quietly resupply Iran in the background or they could step into the future, the inevitability of what's going to happen and help keep the Straits of Hormuz open. At this point Iran is going to do everything they can to try to sow chaos in the world. So wrapping this all up the US and Israel are executing this textbook takedown of the IADs. The IADs have likely fully been crushed at this point and will be for

the next few days and weeks. Cyber attacks, Tomahawk missiles, F-35s, F-22s, B-52s, leadership under heavy surgical fire right now. Retaliation hitting Gulf bases in Israel. But the coalition's air edge is massive. There will be losses for civilians, unfortunately. That happens in warfare. But hopefully we get as much truth data as possible as more legitimate members of the Iranian free people start to step in and take control of the government. Regime change hopefully happens here soon. President Netanyahu of Israel is saying that

they're gonna keep going until everything is complete. This is evolving by the hour. Croxies could be lighting up around the globe. I'll keep you posted as this develops. I wanted this video to focus on the integrated air defenses and how that's being taken down, and I'll keep you posted. Multiple videos coming out daily. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Follow me on X, follow me on Instagram, more breaking updates there. And if you want to see

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