Iran’s longest tunnel networks and largest underground missile arsenals were completely destroyed in seconds by the brutal brute force of American B-52 bombers.

Massive 30,000lb bunker buster bombs sealed off all entrances and exits inside the mountains in seconds.

Those massive tunnels hundreds of meters below ground are now burning fiercely.

Thousands of elite Iranian soldiers and tens of thousands of tons of missile ammunition are gone.

They have nowhere to run.

They cannot fire a missile, receive reinforcements, or communicate with the outside world.

The regime’s most powerful weapon, the famous missile cities, has become the greatest death trap in modern military history.

The epic fury operation which began on February 28th, 2026 was a rare display of force in American aviation history.

And the most devastating moment of this operation took place on March 2nd, 2026.

The targets were the massive ballistic missile complexes carved into the mountains near Koramabad in Lorestan province and Tre in East Aabaijan province which cost billions of dollars to build.

The first target was the Kuramabad underground facility known as the Imam Ali base.

This facility was Iran’s largest ballistic missile complex.

A massive underground city consisting of tunnels ranging from 36 to 50 km in length.

A labyrinth where hundreds of Shahab 3 variant missiles were stored, launchpads were concealed, and ammunition depots were lined up.

This was the backbone of Iran’s regional deterrence.

The operation was nearly impossible for a bomber like the B-52.

However, Iran’s air defense network, which relied on early warning radars based on copying technologies, was rendered blind in the first hours of the operation by simultaneous cyber attacks and electronic warfare elements.

This initial phase prevented personnel hundreds of meters below ground from grasping the scale of the danger on the surface.

With the radar screens blacked out, the Iranian military could not see the impending destruction and its defense systems were disabled.

When this window of complete vulnerability in the airspace opened for just 48 hours, the US Air Force deployed the B-52 Strato Fortress, the heavyweight of its strategic bomber fleet, to strike Iran.

On the night of March 2nd, bombardment salvos from B-52s descended like a nightmare upon the largest underground missile arsenal in Kuramabad.

The operation’s core architecture was based on a layered destruction strategy.

In the first phase, B2 Spirit aircraft silently infiltrated Iranian airspace and dropped 30,000lb GBU57 bunker busting bombs on the targets.

These bombs penetrated deep into the mountains, destroying the main doors and critical support columns in seconds.

The aerodynamic design of the GBU57 munitions combined with gravitational acceleration generates extraordinary kinetic energy.

This energy capable of penetrating 60 m of reinforced concrete and hard rock creates a seismic shock wave upon impact that causes irreparable structural cracks within the tunnel systems.

Immediately afterwards, B1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress aircraft arrived in the area.

The B1 Lancer aircraft with their supersonic speeds entered and exited the battlefield, hunting down mobile air defense batteries one by one.

Subsequently, the B-52s blasted surface support buildings, ventilation shafts, communication antennas, and power transmission lines off the map with thousands of pounds of JDAM smart munitions.

More than eight main tunnel entrances were crushed in seconds by bunker busting bombs.

GBU57s plunged into the mountain, collapsing key passageways.

The inner parts of the tunnels collapsed.

Massive explosions ejected huge fireballs from inside the mountains to the outside.

Heat signatures from NASA’s firm satellite systems recorded extraordinary temperature increases in the area after the attack.

The chain reaction explosion of ammunition depots inside the mountains created massive heat waves that reached the surface.

Hermabad fell.

Iran’s largest missile depot is now a pile of rubble.

As Hermabad burned, the Tbre silo complex in East Azabaijan province shared the same fate.

This facility with its 100 km long tunnel network was the main source of Iran’s retaliatory missiles fired at Urbil and the region.

With the longest tunnel network, this facility was Iran’s second largest missile arsenal.

It had already suffered heavy damage during the June 2025 operations, but the regime had rebuilt it.

During the first wave of attacks on February 28th to March 1st, the entrances and support points of the underground tunnel network were buried under intense bombardment.

The massive compartments inside the facilities may have protected the missiles from complete destruction, but with the ventilation, electrical, and elevator systems destroyed, the missiles and personnel inside were physically unable to reach the surface.

They could not fire missiles, dig tunnels, or communicate with the outside world.

Imagine you’re in a tunnel 80 m underground in the dark without air, shaken by bombs.

And above them, US surveillance planes circle 24/7.

Every movement is detected instantly.

If someone tries to open an entrance, a GBU31 will land on that spot within minutes.

And here’s the most terrifying detail.

According to intelligence reports, between 1,00 and 1,500 Revolutionary Guard military personnel stationed at these two facilities, Permabad and Tabreze, were left in absolute darkness and suffocation hundreds of meters underground when the tunnel covers collapsed on top of them.

This figure is only for these two facilities.

When considering all the dozens of underground bases across the country, the picture is much more dire.

It is reported that there are nearly 100 underground facilities across the country.

This means that an estimated 250,000 military personnel could be deployed in Iran’s underground bases.

Iran’s total military strength is approximately 960,000 personnel.

This means that nearly 1/3 of the army is underground.

1/4 of a 960,000 strong army being trapped in their own shelters rather than on the battlefield is an unprecedented situation in modern warfare history.

Generals have fled.

Over 50 high-ranking commanders have been eliminated.

Barracks have been emptied.

Iran never anticipated this scenario.

But it doesn’t end there.

Preparations on the ground point to a much larger wave to come.

The economic and asymmetric intelligence displayed by the US in this process further deepens the scale of the event.

In the first wave, billions of dollars worth of B2 aircraft were used to blind radars and air defense systems.

However, after the gates were broken, the old but deadly B-52 Stratofortress aircraft took the stage.

Another strategic dimension of the incident is the involvement of British bases.

The US administration deployed three B-52H heavy bomber aircraft to the RAF Fairford base in the UK.

This move proves that Operation Epic Fury is not a short-term raid, but a long-term operational campaign.

Using closer bases such as the UK and Diego Garcia instead of flying from across the ocean will significantly increase the number of sorties.

American bombers have begun to maintain a constant presence in Iranian airspace on a rotating basis.

This creates uninterrupted psychological and military pressure on the Tehran regime.

Aircraft poised to drop bombs at any moment are wiped out.

The military personnel’s hopes of regrouping.

The UK’s approval of airspace access also signals that the international diplomatic front has united against Iran and that Thran’s strategic isolation is deepening.

Why were B-52s from the 1960s used instead of B2 aircraft? Because while the operational cost of a B2 aircraft runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars, the flight hour cost of a B-52 is around $70,000.

Once air superiority was secured, there was no longer a need for expensive stealth technology.

The B-52s served as flying arsenals with their massive ammunition capacities.

These giants, cruising freely in the sky, relentlessly delivered cheap but effective blows to every target attempting to surface from underground.

This situation clearly demonstrated how a cost-effective war machine could also economically strangle the enemy.

This developing asymmetry is also a signal that the US could sustain the operation for weeks.

So why is this massive destruction so important? Looking at the ripple effect, we understand that the issue is not just about a few collapsed tunnels.

The heart of Iran’s military doctrine was built on the concept of missile cities.

Indeed, they had been preparing for this moment for 40 years.

They dug hundreds of kilometers of tunnels into the mountains.

They buried thousands of ballistic missiles, launchpads, ammunition depots, and command centers 80 to 90 m underground.

They called this the missile cities.

Silos in Corgo, 50 km tunnel networks in Hermabad, 100 km corridors in Tre, missile storage canyons in Shiraz.

Each one is an underground city.

The regime was so confident in this that it called on its people to prepare for a long war of 5 years.

The striking of the Hurabad and Tabreze complexes led to an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy and logistical disaster within the revolutionary guard corps.

Collapsing mountain masses left over a thousand elite personnel working at these facilities trapped hundreds of meters underground.

The immediate military consequences of this operation are presenting themselves as a logistical choke point.

The closure of the facility’s entrances prevented missiles from being brought to the surface.

According to Sentcom’s official statement, just 4 days after the Epic Fury operation began on February 28th, as of March 4th, Iran’s ballistic missile launches decreased by 86% and one-way attack drone launches decreased by 73%.

Admiral Brad Kooper announced that over 1,700 targets had been struck.

A significant portion of Iran’s missile stockpiles and UAV munitions were destroyed.

In short, Iran has lost its ability to retaliate.

Every ramp attempting to launch missiles from the mountains was destroyed within minutes by US drones and fighter jets waiting overhead.

Every target that emerged to fire was immediately hunted down.

From a tactical standpoint, the simultaneous use of three different bomber aircraft with perfect synchronization requires advanced planning skills.

When the stealth of the B2s, the speed of the B1s, and the massive munitions capacity of the B-52s came together, Iran’s military infrastructure was literally wiped out.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hexath summed up the situation in a single sentence.

This was never a fair fight.

We’re punching them while they’re down.

Looking at the bigger picture, the domino effect of this collapse will shake regional balances.

Iran’s proxy forces, which it calls and funds as the axis of resistance, are watching in horror as their main headquarters suffer heavy damage.

When the flow of supplies and ammunition is cut off, these proxy forces chances of holding their ground rapidly diminish.

With the protective umbrella damaged, the proxy forces will be forced to fend for themselves.

This situation is simultaneously challenging the regime from within and without.

Iran’s diplomatic hand at the Middle East table has weakened.

The massive ballistic missiles it could have brought to the table are now lying useless under the mountains.

While the regime struggles to maintain the illusion of strength against its own people, it will have largely lost its deterrence against its external enemies.

Neighboring countries are closely monitoring the neutralization of these missile systems which they have perceived as a threat for years.

This geopolitical process is a victory for technological asymmetry and data superiority over static massive structures.

Iran’s traditional defense approach based on concrete and mountains could not withstand satellite intelligence and high precision munitions.

While one side used technological flexibility, signal intelligence, and dynamic targeting, the other relied on shelters built around rigid dogma.

The B-52’s JASSM missiles shattered this dogma, exposing the helplessness within.

For the Iranian regime, returning to its old underground strategy at this point would pose a significant risk and cost.

The mountains they took refuge in are no longer shields protecting them, but have become dangerous areas closing in on them.

What happened serves as a lesson showing how inflexible doctrines can collapse in the competition between great powers and how this collapse can defeat strategic objectives.

Iran’s underground missile cities, considered the heart of its power projection, were transformed into strategic disaster zones under heavy bombardment by B-52s.

Built with billions of dollars in investment and representing the regime’s myth of invincibility, these mountain complexes collapsed meters underground along with their personnel.

Operation Epic Fury not only neutralized a weapons system, it also consigned Tehran’s decades old military doctrine to the dark pages of history.

Woo! >> Overnight, you mentioned the tons getting bombed.

That’s one of the three nuclear enrichment sites that was hit during Operation Midnight Hammer.

It’s located 150 mi south of Tyrron.

As you mentioned, the US dropped 14 ton bombs on Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facility twice in 3 weeks.

And this time, it didn’t just target the entrances, it went deeper.

On the morning of March 21st, 2026, the Natans nuclear enrichment facility was shaken once again.

Tunnel entrances were collapsed.

Ventilation shafts were sealed.

Access ramps were destroyed.

50 m underground behind 2.

5 m of concrete, hundreds of kg of enriched uranium, and likely trapped personnel await in the darkness.

An underground labyrinth with dwindling oxygen, rising temperatures, and severed communications, and organizing a rescue operation from the outside is nearly impossible because the US is standing by, ready to strike those entrances again.

The platform that carried out the operation was the B2 Spirit stealth bomber, the only platform invisible to radar, which took off from Whiteitman Air Force Base in Missouri and flew 18 hours to reach Iran.

Israel’s CAN news agency confirmed that the attack was carried out with bunker buster bombs.

And Israel had also struck its own share of Natans.

During the first week of Operation Epic Fury, the Israeli Air Force struck three of Natans’s underground enrichment halls with its own bunker busting munitions, likely the GBU72 or GBU28.

The US in turn dropped two GBU57s on the main hall housing the centrifuges.

Weighing 14 tons measuring 6.

2 m in length and capable of penetrating to a depth of 60 m.

It is the world’s largest conventional bomb.

In other words, Natans was actually subjected to a two-pronged attack.

Israel weakened the structure and the US delivered the heaviest blow.

On March 3rd, 2026, the IAEA confirmed that the entrance buildings at Natans had sustained significant damage and that access to the underground facilities had effectively been cut off.

The core facility remained intact, but had become inaccessible.

The March 21st attack came with the same weapon system, but this time targeted a different objective beyond the entrances deeper inside.

This is the fifth major attack on Natans.

You cannot grasp the scale of this attack without understanding the tans’s architecture.

The main enrichment facility FE is located 40 to 50 m underground.

It is surrounded by massive concrete shields.

Inside are halls with a capacity of 50,000 centrifuges.

The surface facilities consist of two massive halls spanning 2,500 m and administrative buildings with a capacity for 1,000 personnel.

However, the real mystery lies at the Picax Mountain facility a mile to the south.

Carved into the heart of the Zagros Mountains, this new complex extends down to a depth of 100 m.

According to some intelligence reports, Iran had moved its most sensitive operations 800 m below ground, deeper even than the NORAD headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain.

So, did 14 ton bombs reach that depth? No, but they didn’t need to.

The goal was to destroy the access ramps and ventilation shafts, rendering the nuclear and military structures inside completely inoperable.

At this point, a critical question arises.

Who or what remained inside once the entrances were collapsed? Natans’s underground chambers are not self-sustaining living spaces.

The operation of the centrifuges requires a constant supply of electricity, cooling water, ventilation, and an UF6 feed system.

As the centrifuges spin at extremely high speeds, they generate significant heat.

And if this heat isn’t dissipated, the rotors will deform.

If the ventilation shafts were also damaged when the entrances were destroyed and in the June 2025 Fordo attack, the US specifically targeted the ventilation shafts, temperature control may have been lost.

And there is an even more troubling possibility.

Given a capacity of 1,000 people, there must have been at least onduty crews underground at the time of the attack.

These people may currently be trapped in a labyrinth with sealed exits along with potentially toxic UF6 gas.

UF6 forms hydrofuloric acid when it comes into contact with moisture and can become lethal within a few hours in an enclosed space.

Without electricity, ventilation fans, lighting, and communication systems will not function.

At a depth of 40 to 50 m, there is no natural air circulation.

Establishing communication with the outside world is nearly impossible due to bombed out entrances and damaged cables.

And organizing a rescue operation from the outside to clear the collapsed entrances is extremely difficult under wartime conditions because the US is standing by ready to strike those entrances again.

Iran says there is no radiation leak and the IAEA confirms this.

But the IAEA currently has no access to the facility.

The entrances are collapsed.

Verification relies on remote measurements, not on information coming from inside the facility.

One of the most sensitive yet least discussed aspects of this war is the issue of Russian personnel.

The situation at the Busher nuclear power plant is clear.

Rosatom stated in November 2025 that 3,000 experts were working at the plant, 700 of whom were Russian citizens and the company’s most qualified personnel.

On March 3rd, the reactor was shut down as a precaution.

150 Russians were evacuated, but 639 remain at the facility.

So, is there Russian personnel at Natans? There is no definitive data here, and this silence speaks volumes on its own.

Iran’s nuclear program has received technical support from Russian and Chinese experts since the 1990s.

Russian companies provided expertise and equipment and centrifuge designs were transferred from Pakistan’s AQ Khan network.

Russia built Busher and a $25 billion Rosatom contract for the new plant in Horus Gan was signed in 2025.

It would be naive to assume this network of connections has completely ended at Natans, but proving it is also impossible.

Russia’s response to the Natans attack is noteworthy.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakarova called it a clear violation of international law.

In his Nor’s message, Putin sent a message to Iran stating, “Moscow is your loyal friend and reliable partner.

” Strong words, but no concrete action.

There has been no offer to transfer an air defense system or provide military support to Iran.

This contradiction may have an explanation.

Russia opposes the bombing of Iran, but also opposes a nuclear Iran because a nuclear Iran would threaten Russia’s regional interests as well.

Moscow’s policy of tough rhetoric and soft action stems precisely from this contradiction.

Satellite imagery and analysis published by CNN with exclusive access reveal the scale of the situation.

Iran has built 27 underground bases buried deep within mountains across the country with a total of 107 tunnel entrances identified.

The US and Israel have bombed at least 77% of these bases.

Access points have been sealed off, leaving munitions trapped underground.

But Iran’s response in this regard is striking.

According to a CNN report, Iran typically restores access by digging new tunnel entrances within 48 hours of the attacks.

This demonstrates both the depth of Iran’s underground engineering capabilities and the Cisphus syndrome the US faces.

You collapse one entrance and 48 hours later they open a new one right next to it.

The US strikes, Iran digs.

This cycle constitutes one of the most costly and inefficient aspects of the war.

But Israel is trying a different approach to break this cycle.

Israeli technology appears to have made significant progress in detecting underground shelters.

The accuracy of Israel strikes on Iran’s underground missile launch sites demonstrates that modern surveillance systems can detect heat, vibrations, and other signals even from deep underground.

This means the hide inside the mountain and be safe strategy is no longer as reliable as it once was.

Seeing a bunker isn’t the same as destroying it, but planning an attack on a target you can see is much easier.

And a new wave of concern is rising in the American public.

CNN’s reports that it has gained full access to Iran’s underground missile cities are raising serious security questions.

Questions about how CNN accessed these deep structures and under what conditions are being debated in Washington.

It remains unclear whether visualizing Iran’s underground architecture represents an intelligent success or a deliberate move toward transparency by Iran.

The scale of the tunnel networks is also critical.

The Kasma Mountain facility south of Natans has two pairs of entrance tunnels, one on the east and one on the west.

According to an analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security, the tunnel entrances were reinforced with concrete slabs and additional niche areas were added after the June 2025 war to enhance resilience.

Satellite imagery shows a truck exiting the tunnel facility immediately following the June 18th, 2025 attack.

This suggests that Iran may have moved critical materials, likely enriched uranium stocks, to deeper facilities prior to the attack.

Natance is not a nuclear reactor but an enrichment facility.

This distinction is crucial because it completely changes the risk profile.

A Chernobyl or Fukushima style nuclear meltdown scenario does not apply here.

There is no reactor core at Natans capable of triggering a nuclear chain reaction.

But this does not mean the risk is zero.

The danger could manifest in different forms.

First, a UF6 leak.

Uranium hexaflloride gas is processed in centrifuges under high pressure and is extremely toxic.

When it comes into contact with moisture, it forms hydrofluoric acid which causes both chemical burns and radiation exposure.

In the event of a leak from damaged centrifuges or pipelines, lethal concentrations can be reached rapidly in enclosed underground areas.

Second, low-level radioactive contamination.

Enriched uranium dust or residues can spread into the environment from damaged equipment, but this has a much more limited and localized impact compared to reactor accidents.

The risk of radiation leakage into the open air is low because there is a fundamental difference between an enrichment facility and a nuclear reactor.

There is no reactor core producing a chain reaction at Natans.

Third, and perhaps the most insidious, is long-term environmental contamination.

If hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium are left uncontained in a bombed out and abandoned underground facility, there is a risk that it will seep into the groundwater over time.

The region where Natans is located is close to the fertile plains between Isvahan and Kashan, that is Iran’s inland agricultural basin.

Uranium contamination reaching the groundwater table could create an environmental disaster that lasts for generations.

This is not a sudden explosion but a slow and silent poisoning scenario.

In terms of regional impact, Natans is not and will not be a Chernobyl.

But the Gulf states and Iraq are concerned because the loss of control over Iran’s nuclear facilities has set off alarms in regional radiation monitoring systems.

IAEA Director General Gross’s call for restraint to prevent the risk of a nuclear accident in military actions is the institutional reflection of this concern.

The IAEA has so far stated that no radiological consequences are expected, but the IAEA’s access has been restricted for 8 months.

It cannot verify the inventories of lowenriched uranium and highlyenriched uranium.

In IAEA Director General Gy’s own words, “Verification of Iran’s declared nuclear material inventories is already significantly overdue according to standard inspection practices.

” In other words, no one currently knows for certain exactly how much material is where.

FDD analyst Andrea Stricker points to a possible scenario.

Iran had stored part of the enriched uranium from the Isvahan tunnel complex in easily transportable containers and was constructing a new enrichment unit at that facility.

The US destroyed the entrances to the Isvahan tunnels with tomahawk missiles in June 2025, but the fate of the material inside remains unclear.

A similar situation may apply to Natans.

The entrances have been destroyed, but hundreds of kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are still there.

Iran’s last trump card was nuclear blackmail.

The threat, if you corner us, we’ll build an atomic bomb, has been Thran’s strategic shield for decades.

Now, the physical infrastructure of that shield is being systematically dismantled.

As a result, Natan’s physical infrastructure has been largely destroyed or rendered inaccessible.

The centrifuges have been destroyed.

The entrances have been collapsed.

The ventilation shafts have been sealed.

No one knows for certain what lies deep within Mount Com.

But the nuclear program is not a building.

It is not a centrifuge.

It is not a hall buried 8 m under concrete and 22 m under soil.

The nuclear program is the physical equation governing uranium isotope separation.

It is the metallergical knowledge that produces maraging steel rotors.

It is the step-by-step engineering that connects thousands of machines into a single enrichment architecture.

This knowledge exists in the human mind, and no bomb can reduce it to a crater.

As long as Iran’s nuclear scientists are alive, and as long as the program has been alive in the minds of thousands of engineers across dozens of universities and hundreds of research centers since 2003, this program can be rebuilt.

Replacing the centrifuges takes months.

Destroying the knowledge is impossible.

And right now, behind collapsed entrances 40 to 50 meters underground in halls with cutff ventilation and a cooling system that may be out of commission, hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium are waiting.

It is unknown whether there is any personnel inside.

It cannot be confirmed whether Russians are present at these facilities as technical advisers, but given the presence of 700 Russian experts in Busher, it is difficult to assume there is no Russian personnel at Natans.

The US will strike Natans for the sixth time, perhaps the seventh, perhaps the eighth.

And with each strike, it will inflict more damage on the physical infrastructure.

But can any bomb at any depth from any arsenal disrupt this equation? The answer to this question will determine Iran’s nuclear future and the security architecture of the Middle East.

>> Israel and the US destroyed Iran’s largest underground bomb production facilities on the night of March 22nd.

B1 Lancer bombers and F-35 IAD stealth jets were gliding toward the east of Tehran.

The target was Damavand located 50 km east of Tehran, a massive underground bomb laboratory hidden in the strategic corridor between the Kojia aviation complex and the Parchin nuclear facility, the twin hearts of Iran’s missile and nuclear programs.

Iran had specifically chosen this location, close enough to the capital for logistical ease, yet mountainous enough to provide protection from attacks.

Satellite imagery showed that the density of air defenses around the facility was higher than in any other region of Iran.

The regime was protecting this site above all else.

Normally reaching this location was nearly impossible.

But the waves of attacks continuing since February 28th had systematically dismantled the shield.

S300’s, Bavar 373s, radars, command centers.

Damovan’s shield had fallen.

The first phase of the operation began with electronic warfare.

The F-35 is jammed the last remaining radars with electronic warfare.

Early warning systems were blinded.

Then the F-35 is and F-16 is Sufers approached the target and the first strikes were directed at the tunnel entrances.

These entrances are no ordinary doors.

According to a report leaked by the Iranian opposition years ago, the main tunnel at Kojia is approximately 1 km long, 12 m wide, and branches off into 6 half km long side tunnels.

An underground town reinforced with concrete buried 20 to 100 m deep into the mountains core.

F-15i Ram squadrons began dropping 2,000 lb Blu 109 warhead equipped JDAM bombs on the tunnel entrances.

All of this is in preparation for the B1B Lancer’s heavy bombardment.

The Shahed Hemat group, Iran’s largest ballistic missile manufacturer, was conducting body production and final assembly in the largest tunnel.

The Beri group was carrying out mass production of the Fatire 110 family of missiles at five separate facilities.

The production line for the Haj Casm ballistic missile with a range of 1,400 km capable of reaching Israel was also located in these tunnels.

The warehouses contained hundreds of ready to launch missiles.

Thousands of tons of solid rocket fuel and fuel components awaiting mixing in planetary mixers.

The secondary explosions lasting for minutes in the videos serve as proof of the scale of these stockpiles.

JDAM simultaneously destroyed multiple entry points and the hundreds of people inside Hemat’s assemblers, Beri’s technicians, guidance engineers, warhead specialists suddenly lost contact with the outside world.

Exit routes were sealed off.

Ventilation ceased.

When the entrances collapsed, the most brutal phase of the operation began.

Hundreds of personnel inside, engineers, technicians, soldiers, suddenly lost contact with the outside world.

Exit routes were blocked, making an emergency evacuation impossible.

But collapsing the entrances wasn’t enough.

The real targets lay deep within the mountain.

American B1B Lancer bombers dropped 5,000 lb GBU72 penetration bombs.

These bombs penetrate concrete and rock to reach the interior of the tunnel where they detonate, targeting the solid fuel mixing units housing the planetary mixers, missile engine test stands, and final assembly lines.

These machines are subject to international export controls, and Iran obtains them through illicit channels.

Their loss creates a gap that will take years to fill.

In the October 2024 Israeli operation, 12 planetary mixers at Kojia were destroyed.

But during that attack, air defenses were still active, flight durations were short, and there was no time for repeated strikes.

In 2026, conditions are entirely different.

Air defenses have collapsed and coalition aircraft can conduct operations for hours.

The GBU72s provided sufficient penetration power for the tunnels at Damavand which were 20 to 100 m deep.

GBU28 laserg guided bunker busters targeted deeper entrances.

Administrative buildings, logistic centers, and personnel shelters due to their high speeds making them impossible to intercept.

According to a Reuters report, these structures were surrounded by earthn BMS to prevent an explosion in one building from spreading to another.

This precaution itself is an admission of just how explosive the material inside was.

The pace of the attacks that night was intense.

Part of the tunnels extended to Mount Caxsephid to the north, 300 m above the surrounding terrain, housing a second underground complex.

Given this multi-layered structure, it is inevitable that dozens of fighter jets were assigned to a single complex and then the chain reactions began.

Bombs hitting the storage facilities ignited thousands of tons of solid rocket fuel and readyto-use munitions.

In videos captured by local residents, the sky lit up orange and secondary explosions could be heard for minutes on end.

Moreover, Damavand was not being struck for the first time.

On March 5th, the US had attacked the same area, resulting in a massive explosion at the Hadar Kar IRGC garrison.

March 22nd marked the second wave.

Structures that had not been completely destroyed in the first attack were targeted.

The coalition strategy, strike, assess via satellite, return, and finish the job.

Iran tries to reopen access points within 48 hours.

The coalition monitors and strikes again.

The IDF listed four additional target categories that same night.

An anti-aircraft missile depot, a defense ministry weapons factory, an IRGC production facility, and an intelligence ministry headquarters.

And Damovand was not the only target.

On March 21st to 23rd, the entire chain of Iran’s underground weapons infrastructure was systematically struck.

In southern Iran, an ammunition depot beneath hardened structures at the Serjan Naval Training Base took a heavy hit on March 21st.

Osent accounts described this as the largest explosion we’ve seen so far.

Footage shows a massive fire column and secondary explosions lasting for minutes.

Proof that the depot was full and the stockpiles detonated in a chain reaction.

The Aabad Ballistic Missile Base not far from Serjan, another missile city in Horsan province was struck by B2 spirits in the early days of the war.

The concentration of targets in the south indicates that Iran’s naval and missile infrastructure along the Hormuz coast is being systematically dismantled.

The ammunition depot at Desool/Vati air base was also blown up in a massive explosion during the same period.

Desol is located in western Iran near the Iraqi border.

A significant portion of ballistic missile launches targeting Israel were directed from this region.

The footage of the explosion clearly shows a series of secondary explosions.

The coalition is systematically targeting not only factories but also stockpiles.

The March 21st to 23rd operations did not occur in a vacuum.

Since late February, every link in Iran’s missile and drone production chain had been targeted, and by the end of March, nearly the entire chain had been severed.

The defense unit south of the nuclear complex in Isvahan was struck twice between March 6th and 18th.

The first strike destroyed the above ground structures, while the second collapsed the underground connections.

This facility served as the command and control center for the physical protection of the Isvahan nuclear complex and included a tunnel complex built around 2007.

Both tunnel entrances were struck.

The cooling unit protected by a concrete barrier was destroyed and the underground section collapsed during the second attack.

This strike carries critical implications for the nuclear program.

Even if Isfahan’s nuclear facilities themselves were not attacked, their defense and control layer has been eliminated with the command and control center destroyed.

The nuclear facilities security coordination, early warning system, and emergency response capabilities also collapsed.

Even if the facility remains physically intact, it is now defenseless.

The drone factory in the Humeishar district of Isvahan was completely destroyed between March 8th and 11th.

This was the facility where Iran produced its Shahhead kamicazi drones.

The before and after satellite images released by Sentcom are striking.

An active factory on March 3rd, unrecognizable rubble on March 12th.

The advanced fiber development company factory south of Kazvine was destroyed between March 5th and 17th.

Why is this company significant? It produced carbon fiber, a critical material for the lightweight yet durable structure of ballistic missile bodies.

The US Treasury had sanctioned the company in May 2025 due to its ties to the IRGC air force.

An IDF spokesperson in Farsy warned the public before the attack and subsequent satellite imagery showed the main structures completely destroyed.

The Ku ebaramali ballistic missile assembly facility part of the Kojia complex and the heart of Iran’s missile final assembly capacity sustained heavy damage on March 7th.

This facility affiliated with the Shahed Hemat Industrial Group was the final stage where components were assembled into missiles.

Sentcom’s before and after images confirmed that the assembly lines were rendered inoperable.

A turbine factory in the Shokohya industrial town in K was struck.

Critical components for missile and drone engines were produced here.

The nearby airport was also targeted and the missile production facility east of Tehran.

The facility struck in the campaign’s early days with Sentcom documenting the destruction of its final assembly buildings through imagery showed further damage in new footage from mid-March.

The coalition was returning to the same targets to complete the remaining destruction.

One of the most critical targets in all these operations is a machine most people have never even heard of, the planetary mixer.

These massive industrial mixers are used to homogeneously blend solid rocket fuel components.

The production of solid fuel engines, the heart of ballistic missiles, is impossible without them.

And these machines are subject to international export controls.

Iran cannot purchase them on the open market.

It procures them through illicit channels by circumventing sanctions.

Losing a planetary mixer means it could take months, even years to obtain a replacement.

An analysis by the James Martin Center identified extensive damage at the mixer and foundry facilities in Kojier.

When you place this within the missile production chain, the picture becomes clear.

The carbon fiber body factory in Kasvvin was destroyed.

The solid fuel mixing facilities in Kojia was struck.

The final assembly lines in Ku E Bargeali were destroyed.

The turbine and engine factory in K was demolished.

The Shahed drone production facility in Humeisha was leveled.

Ammunition depots in Serjan and Desol were blown up.

The command and control center in Isvahan collapsed.

Every link in the chain from raw materials to finished products and from there to storage.

Here the key analysis that emerges is this.

When a coalition of 22 nations representing a significant portion of the world’s air and naval power is at your doorstep, what military options remain? In a conventional warfare scenario where regular forces face off, the likelihood of the Iranian military surviving is according to military analysts calculations close to
zero.

The older generation frigots and light tonnage hitand-run boats in the Revolutionary Guards infantry are capable of being devastated within seconds within the massive ring of death formed by jets launching from aircraft carriers and Eegis combat systems.

Within this hopeless equation, the path Thran is pursuing is not a strategy for victory, but an access denial doctrine focused on closing the area off to the enemy.

They possess only three asymmetric cards, difficult to implement, but harboring potential danger.

The first option involves covert mining operations.

A scenario is being evaluated in which smart mines are deployed at night into the straits blind spots using Gadier class mini submarines which leave no radar signature and vessels disguised as civilian fishing boats.

The second option is to exploit the rugged terrain of the coastline.

The plan is to launch surprise attacks on coalition ships using no and Carterclass anti-ship missiles fired from labyrinthine tunnels carved into the steep slopes of the Zagros mountain range facing the Gulf.

The third and final card is to throw regional proxies into the fry by ordering the Houthis in Yemen to strike commercial routes in the Red Sea.

The aim is to split the international fleet’s attention and firepower between Babel Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz.

However, none of these steps carry enough weight to militarily defeat the coalition.

The objective is to drive insurance costs to astronomical levels by striking a western tanker or a mind sweeper.

The goal is to shatter the coalition’s political will by creating panic in the global public sphere.

This approach is less a military master stroke and more the very embodiment of a high-risk asymmetric suicide doctrine destined to end in failure.

The strategic summary of this grim picture reveals one of the massive boomerang effects rarely witnessed in geopolitical history.

While decision makers in Tehran assumed that locking the gates of the straight of Hormuz would bring the global economy to its knees, they fell into the trap they had set.

All diplomatic and economic bridges to the European continent have been irrevocably destroyed.

Military elements were incorporated into global terrorist networks, and the modern navies of 22 nations were invited to their very own shores.

While Beijing and Moscow watched this strategic defeat from afar and in silence, the world’s superpowers unhesitatingly entered the fry to protect their own economic interests.

Iran’s famous blackmail card has gone up in flames on the table.

Trapped within the asymmetric choke point they created and surrounded by a massive military force, Thran is being left to drown helplessly at the center of the storm it unleashed.

The regime’s grand scheme has been crushed by a crushing defeat in its own waters.

The only question remaining, will Thran accept this siege and sit down at the table? Or will it burn its last cards and be buried in the darkness of despair? >> After the complete purge of Kamei and his inner circle, the regime resorted to a lastditch effort to stop the horrific civil war in which the army and the government were strangling each other.

The regime was in a state of great authority vacuum with major crises erupting between the interim government and the generals.

Pzescian apologized to everyone and Trump announced this to the world as Iran’s surrender.

>> Well, it’s only good if you win.

You know, you can only and we’ve won.

Let me say we’ve won.

>> This shattered the pride of the military wing in Thran, igniting the spark of a rebellion that split the state in two.

Iranian generals determined not to repeat the same mistake hastily selected the new supreme leader Mojaba Kami and locked him away in one of the country’s most secret deepest underground headquarters.

There was no official television broadcast in the country nor was any threat made toward the west.

Iranian generals took extreme security measures to avoid repeating the weaknesses that led to Ali Kamani’s downfall.

The new leader was placed in a highly secret underground shelter located deep within Thran.

Claimed to be resistant to nuclear attacks.

However, this terrifying underground weight would serve more as a technological death trap than a security shield.

The Iranian regime is crumbling from within and its new supreme leader was eliminated in his underground bunker before even completing his first 24 hours in office.

Less than 24 hours after the appointment, in the afternoon of March 9th, the sound of F-35 fighter jet engines echoed in the sky.

Joint intelligence work by Israel and the US had decoded the exact coordinates of the bunker where Mujaba Kamina was hiding at extraordinary speed.

Precisiong guided bunker busting missiles dropped from the fighter jets, locked onto their target, and shattered the concrete blocks meters below the surface.

This attack blasted not only a physical structure, but all of the regime’s security doctrines.

The intelligence mechanism behind the attack revealed a reality far more frightening than the missiles themselves.

The fact that the location of a shelter could be identified in as little as 24 hours is a massive vulnerability.

This situation pointed directly to a leak of information from the top echelons of the regime.

This internal data flow enabled US and Israeli forces to strike their targets with surgical precision.

State television was forced to announce that Mojab Kami had been seriously wounded in the legs.

This statement meant that the regime was admitting its helplessness to its own people.

The security walls had been breached from within.

The system had collapsed.

Many sources indicate that he had already died and that the regime had created a major psychological illusion.

After Muchaba’s hideout was exposed, Israeli intelligence released a new elimination list via channel 14.

This list included key figures of the regime such as Ali Larijani, Galibbah, and Ahmad Vahidi.

The publication of the list created unprecedented paranoia among military and political leaders.

In a scenario where their leaders could be located and killed within 24 hours, the chances of survival for the other names on the list were virtually non-existent.

Generals began accusing each other of being moles.

This is because locating a hideout in such a short time frame as 24 hours could not be explained solely by satellite imagery or signal tracking methods.

This pointed to a leak of information coming directly from the top of the regime.

Since February 28th, there had been serious allegations that Ismael Carney, commander of the revolutionary guards could force had been providing intelligence on behalf of Israel and leaking the coordinates of highranking generals.

If even a symbolic figure like Carney was under suspicion, the question of which other generals were whispering Muchaba’s coordinates to Israeli warplanes was eating away at the regime from within.

The targeting of the new leader indicates that the coordinates were handed over on a silver platter by the very people tasked with protecting him.

That deadly list announced to the world by Israeli intelligence on channel 14 screens instantly turned the power game in Tehran into a massive struggle for survival.

The shooting of Muchaba in Kamei’s supposedly impregnable underground fortress had already caused a severe shock wave in the regime’s upper echelons.

However, the real wave of panic broke out when the names of the next targets were published one by one.

Figures such as Ali Larijani, Muhammad Bagghar Galibbath and Ahmad Vahidi who form the political and military backbone of the regime are now marked targets on that list.

These figures who until a few days ago were fiercely competing for the position of supreme leader are now desperately seeking escape routes to avoid sitting in that chair.

The path to the top of the state now looks like nothing more than a door leading straight to the grave.

The behavioral codes of the military and political elite have changed at a staggering pace.

Generals now view those deep underground bunkers, once symbols of power and security, as potential concrete coffins.

Headquarters buildings are being rapidly evacuated.

Armored convoys are being dispersed, and the command structure is constantly relocating to lose its digital or physical trail.

Top commanders of the regular army and the revolutionary guards are showing a tendency to abandon their posts while awaiting the precise guided death from the sky.

This uncontrolled disintegration is directly driving Iran’s military chain of command into a collapse phase.

In this system, where decision makers are hiding in the shadows and new leadership candidates are sherking responsibility, the state’s mechanisms have effectively shut down.

This scenario, where no one wants to take the lead and everyone is focused only on saving their own skin, creates unprecedented chaos for the regime.

In the bloody uprising erupting in the streets, the regime’s guards, clashing with their own people and rebel army units, are spinning out of control like a headless body.

The deep mistrust among high-ranking officers, combined with the instinct for survival, is eroding the institutional structure from within.

This strategic operation staged by US and Israeli forces is not just destroying ammunition depots or shelters.

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