It appears we have entered a new brutal and irreversible phase in the Iran war.

On the night of March 7th, Thran experienced the heaviest bombardment in its history.

The data we have points to a devastating military collapse.

The massive air bridges that fueled Iran’s external operations have been destroyed.

Look closely at the sequence of coordinates on the map.

The operation’s central hub starts at Tehran Meabad airport, extends to the Isvahan air bases in the south and locks onto the Tonduan, Shahira, and Shahan oil refineries surrounding Tehran in perfect order.

This apocalyptic scene unfolded overnight.

But in reality, it was the culmination of a week of systematic destruction because on the night of March 7th, the war in Tehran entered a new phase.

Until that night, the US and Israel had been striking Iran’s missile bases, underground bunkers, and command centers.

But now, the target had changed.

Iran’s air bridges, airports, aircraft fleets, and fuel infrastructure were systematically destroyed.

In this relentless wave of attacks, US and Israeli forces destroyed Iran’s backbone, its fleet of F-14 fighter jets, its air defense systems, and its giant military cargo planes right at their bases.

Iran can no longer fly, bring in reinforcements, or evacuate.

Let’s start our analysis from the heart of Tehran.

Meabad International Airport.

Israeli and US aircraft, including more than 80 Israeli warplanes, struck targets across Tehran, including Meabad, with 230 bombs.

With this latest attack, Meabad airport has been completely disabled.

The toll is devastating for the regime.

The Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, announced in an official statement on Saturday, March 7th, that 16 aircraft belonging to the Kuds force had been completely destroyed.

Satellite images show that 17 aircraft, including cargo planes, were destroyed or severely damaged.

Post strike images are horrifying.

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Burned aircraft fuselages, engine parts, wing remnants, all scattered across the charred asphalt.

The cargo planes that once transported weapons and money to the region for the Jerusalem force are now unrecognizable.

Let’s pause and consider what this number means.

16 massive cargo planes.

These planes were the very airbridge that transported cash and missiles to Hezbollah.

Iran’s air bridges are no more.

Tehran airport has been destroyed.

Even the possibility of actors like Russia or China sending spare parts or support from outside seems to have turned into a very difficult scenario due to the lack of a safe runway to land on.

While air bridges were being cut in Tehran on the same night March 7th, a historic military disaster was unfolding on another front of the war in Isvahan.

Isfahan is not an ordinary province.

It is the heart of Iran’s air defense, home to the most critical military positions and the famous F-14 Tomcat fighter jet fleet.

Immediately after the Meabbad attacks, the Israeli army and sentcom simultaneously destroyed a critical air base in Isvahan.

The air base and all the aircraft inside were wiped out.

The meaning is very clear.

The target was to destroy the entire F-14 fleet.

The Israeli military confirmed that the F-14 fighter jets at Isfahan airport and the air defense systems meant to protect them were struck directly in their hangers.

On the night of March 7th, as explosions rocked the city’s airports, all the energy lines supplying the army were simultaneously cut off.

Israel and the US turned a petroleum refinery in Tehran and exactly 30 separate petroleum storage tanks into hell.

By morning, Tehran awoke to an apocalyptic scene.

Thick smoke and flames engulfed the capital’s skyline while the city was shrouded in a dense fog.

It was as if oil was raining from the sky.

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Tons of fuel leaking from the struck facilities flowed directly onto roads into sewers and drainage channels.

Four major oil depots in Tehran caught fire simultaneously.

The army refineries Navoniad, Shahi Ray, and Shaan were completely destroyed.

The fires at the Tonguan oil refinery south of Tehran proved that the regime’s internal logistics have effectively collapsed.

The repercussions of that massive operation on the night of March 7th were etched into Iran’s aviation history as a fatal blow.

>> Meabad had become one of the symbolic targets of the Iran war because this airport was hit three times in a week and the damage increased exponentially each time.

The first attack began on March 2nd.

News of the attack on Meabad International Airport in central Thran first came that night.

It became clear at that moment that the operation was not limited to military bases, but aimed to paralyze the capital’s entire strategic transportation network.

The second wave came on March 3rd to 4th.

Witness videos geollocated by CNN showed flames rising from the airport, thick smoke, and planes burning on the runway.

Israel’s devastating attack destroyed both military and civilian aircraft along with fuel depots.

The regime’s aviation infrastructure was completely wiped out and March 7th, the third and most devastating strike.

A total of 17 aircraft were damaged or destroyed.

The runways became unusable.

Fuel tanks exploded.

Shrapnel even hit the terminal building.

Result: Meabad is one of two airports serving Iran’s capital.

It was hit three times in one week and completely disabled.

The airport’s closure stranded thousands of people.

International and domestic flights were halted.

Diplomatic personnel, journalists, civilians, no way out.

But it’s not just about civilian flights.

Analysts say the real target is much more strategic.

Cutting off Iran’s ability to bring in reinforcements and weapons from outside, from Russia or China.

For years, Kud’s force cargo planes transported weapons and money from Iran to Hezbollah, proxy groups in Syria and militias in Iraq.

These planes were also the gateway for military supplies entering Iran from abroad.

Russian-made ammunition, Chinese electronic components, North Korean missile parts.

Now that gateway is closed.

The cargo planes have been destroyed.

The runways are unusable.

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Iran’s air bridges, its ability to bring anything in from outside or take anything out, have been completely severed.

Even if Russia wanted to send aid to Iran, there are no runways to land on.

Even if China wanted to send parts, there are no airports to land at.

The destruction in Isfahan shattered the myth of the F-14s, which the regime had tried to keep flying for years despite sanctions by replacing parts and tinkering with them.

That legendary F-14 fleet, the star of the regime’s propaganda videos, was destroyed on the ground in a single night without even a chance to take off.

What does this mean? Iran’s aging but still operational F-14 fleet Americanmade purchased during the sh’s reign in the 1970s the most prestigious and capable combat platform of the Iranian air force was wiped out in a single night these aircraft had become legendary during the Iran Iraq war they had shot down Iraqi planes with Phoenix missiles Iran had kept them flying for 45 years repairing them piece by piece with its own engineers it was the last operational F-14 fleet in the world.

Even the US retired them in 2006 and now they lie in charred wreckage on the runway in Isvahan.

The Iranian Air Force no longer exists, even on paper.

US forces were also active in Isvahan.

Videos show US war plananes carrying out heavy attacks on air defense positions near the airport.

Remember, just a few days earlier on March 4th, an Israeli F-35 shot down an Iranian Russian-made Yak 130 aircraft.

The F-35’s first air-to-air victory in history.

Iran’s air force was already technologically helpless.

On March 7th, its remaining physical assets were also destroyed.

The simultaneous destruction of airports and refineries is a fatal blow to the heart of the regime’s resistance and power projection doctrine.

This situation cannot be assessed merely as the loss of military assets.

It is also a violent shattering of the illusion of security that the state offered its own citizens and proxies.

The collapse of Meabbad severed any potential supply lines for weapons and ammunition from outside.

While the destruction of the refineries permanently silenced the engines of tanks, generators and armored units within.

The dual destruction of logistics routes has condemned the regime to a life of confinement within its own territory.

Moreover, the targeting of the area around the nuclear facility in Busher and even small police stations in Abdan demonstrates that state authority no longer exists in any corner of the country.

The expansion of the target range to such an extent proves the depth of the attackers’s intelligence dominance over Iran.

The strikes around critical facilities housing Russian personnel carry diplomatic messages.

They convey in harsh terms to Moscow and Beijing that the Iranian theater is no longer a reliable investment or alliance zone.

The smoke rising over Busher documents that the protective shield Thran promised its allies is actually nothing more than a paper shield.

If the physical dimensions of the destruction that occurred on the night of March 7th are visible on maps as black smoke, the intelligence operation behind this destruction must have created a much darker wave of panic in the regime’s mindset.

Military history and strategy tell us this.

Being able to strike a country’s most critical military facilities, cargo planes, and air defense radars in its capital city in a single night with such surgical precision cannot be explained solely by the technological superiority of the jets in the sky.

Knowing exactly which cargo plane on the Meabbad runways was operational, which hanger in Isvahan housed a flight ready F-14 requires massive data mining and more importantly a flawless human intelligence human network fed from within.

What happened on the Isvahan front is one of the clearest proofs of how deep this intelligence leak penetrated.

The Isvahan air base is no ordinary military site.

It is Iran’s most heavily guarded facility surrounded by layered air defense systems including Russian-made S300’s and domestic Bavar 373s making it virtually impregnable.

However, the fact that the attacking jets locked onto their targets directly without triggering these radar networks or completely blinding them using electronic warfare sigant methods strengthens the possibility that the systems software vulnerabilities or daily encryption codes fell into enemy hands.

Even more shocking is that the missiles destroyed the F-14s not on an empty runway, but by entering their hangers directly and obliterating them at the blasted level.

An ordinary satellite image can show you the external shape of an aircraft.

But only an insider, a whisper in uniform, can tell you that that aircraft was in that hanger that night, whether it was undergoing maintenance or loaded with fuel.

This situation opens the door to an unprecedented witch hunt and psychological collapse within the command echelons of the revolutionary guards IRGC and the regular army artes.

The pinpoint selection of targets may indicate that not only military equipment, but also bonds of loyalty to the regime have been severed.

The most lasting damage inflicted on the regime by the March 7th operation may not be the burning oil depots or the shattered aircraft.

The greatest damage is the deep fear and suspicion felt by commanders looking at their own soldiers, by generals looking at their own headquarters.

When a state’s military apparatus begins to believe that the enemy is not only in the sky, but also in its own radio room, at the radar screen, or sitting at the next desk, that army is paralyzed, trapped.

This feeling of internal decay caused by intelligence failure may signal a much slower but equally destructive process of strangulation than external intervention.

The illusion of a safe zone was shattered.

The war settled directly into the heart of Tehran.

Iran has become paralyzed, unable to defend its skies, fly its planes, or fuel its army.

The nature of the war has changed.

This is no longer a conflict, but the planned and methodical destruction of a regime mechanism.

It has transformed Thran from a regional player into a structure struggling to survive within its own borders.

How much longer can the regime control its own army and people in this apocalyptic capital where the streets are flooded with burning oil and the skies are under the control of external forces? What are your thoughts on this apocalyptic strategy? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

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