00:15The bombs stopped falling. The ceasefire kicked in. Both sides agreed to pause. And within 72
00:23hours, satellites caught Iran doing something that changes everything about what this ceasefire
00:28actually means. They're digging. Fast. A ceasefire is supposed to be a pause, a moment to breathe,
00:36a window for diplomacy. But what if one side is using that window not to talk but to rearm?
00:43Because that's exactly what satellite imagery analyzed by CNN appears to show Iran doing right
00:50now. And if you understand what was bombed and what Iran is trying to get back, this footage
00:56is genuinely alarming. To understand what's happening now, you need to understand what
01:02happened during the six weeks before the ceasefire. The US and Israeli coalition didn't just bomb Iran.
01:09They went after something very specific. Iran's underground missile cities. These are not
01:15ordinary military bases. These are vast complexes carved directly into mountains. The coalition
01:21knew they couldn't fully destroy what was inside. So they went for the next best thing. They sealed
01:27the doors. Bunker buster munitions. B-2 bombers dropping 2,000-pound penetrators. Strike after strike,
01:35not to blow up the missiles, but to collapse the tunnel entrances and trap everything inside.
01:41By some assessments, strikes hit roughly 77 percent of visible tunnel entrances across Iran's network.
01:48April 10, three days into the two-week ceasefire. Airbus satellites pass over Iran. The images come
01:56back. Analysts start looking. And there it is. At a site near Khomein in the Hormozgon region. A front-end
02:03loader sitting on top of a rubble pile. Dump trucks lined up behind it. Workers clearing debris from a
02:09collapsed tunnel entrance. Same story near Tabriz. Same equipment, same activity. Iran is digging its missile
02:17bases back open. CNN global affairs analyst Kareem Sajadpour reviewed the images and confirmed,
02:24this is Iran working to free trapped missile launchers and restore access to its underground
02:29arsenal. The same arsenal the coalition spent six weeks trying to lock away. So what exactly is trapped
02:36in these tunnels? Ballistic missile launchers. Mobile launch platforms. Missiles that were shielded by
02:42hundreds of meters of mountain rock while US and Israeli strikes hit the entrances above them.
02:48US intelligence has assessed that a substantial portion of Iran's launchers may still be recoverable,
02:55meaning they weren't destroyed, just locked in. If Iran gets those tunnel entrances cleared before
03:01the ceasefire ends, or before a deal is reached, it walks back into any future confrontation with
03:07significantly more firepower than it had three days ago. Meanwhile, peace talks are supposedly imminent.
03:14A second round between the US and Iran is expected this week, possibly again in Islamabad with Pakistan
03:20brokering. The ceasefire expires April 22nd, but these satellite images now hang over every conversation
03:27at that table. Six weeks of bombing, 77% of tunnel entrances targeted, a strategy built entirely on
03:36keeping Iran's missiles underground. And three days into the ceasefire, the digging begins. The pause
03:42expires April 22nd. Talks may happen this week, but these images are a reminder that on the ground and
03:49underground, this conflict has not paused at all.
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