00:03.
00:15Late Wednesday night, explosions lit up the sky over Tehran.
00:20Iranian air defenses opened fire on drones flying over their own capital.
00:25No one claimed responsibility.
00:27And that silence?
00:29That might be the scariest part.
00:31Here's where we are right now.
00:33February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched one of the most significant military operations in recent history,
00:40striking Iranian missile sites, nuclear infrastructure, naval assets, and IRGC leadership
00:47in what the U.S. called Operation Epic Fury.
00:51Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was reportedly killed in the opening wave.
00:55After roughly 38 days of major combat, a ceasefire took hold in early April.
01:01The U.S. declared its objectives largely met.
01:04Iran's offensive capabilities gutted, its nuclear breakout potential dismantled.
01:09But the war didn't end.
01:11It just changed shape.
01:13Since mid-April, the U.S. Navy has been sitting on Iran's ports.
01:17A full naval blockade.
01:19No oil out.
01:20No deal.
01:21No relief.
01:22The Strait of Hormuz, the choke point for roughly 20% of the world's oil supply, has been a war
01:28zone of a different kind.
01:30Iran disrupted it.
01:32The U.S. locked it down further.
01:34Gas prices are up.
01:35Global energy markets are rattled.
01:38And Trump has been clear, the blockade stays until Iran makes serious concessions on its nuclear program.
01:43Iranian President Pezheshkian calls it an attack on Iran's independence.
01:48Iran has threatened unprecedented military action.
01:52So far, tense standoff.
01:54Stalled negotiations.
01:56No breakthrough.
01:57And then, Wednesday night.
01:58Anti-aircraft guns firing over western Tehran, central Tehran, southeastern Tehran.
02:05Witnesses reported explosions in the sky, lights, bursts of fire.
02:10Iranian state media described hostile targets, drones, small UAVs, reconnaissance aircraft.
02:18Here's what nobody said.
02:19Who sent them?
02:20Not the U.S.
02:21Not Israel.
02:22No statement.
02:23No claim.
02:24This is the third reported air defense activation over the capital since the ceasefire.
02:29And the timing, right as blockade talks are stalling, right as Trump is being briefed by CENTCOM on potential new
02:36strike options, is not nothing.
02:38Is this Iranian paranoia after weeks of devastating strikes?
02:42A real incursion by an unknown actor?
02:45A test?
02:46Deliberate psychological pressure from someone who doesn't want to sign their name to it?
02:51We don't know yet.
02:52What we do know is this.
02:54Iran claims it's rebuilt parts of its missile stockpile.
02:57The UAE is telling its citizens to leave Iran immediately.
03:01And Trump has reportedly been briefed on options for a, quote, short and powerful second wave of strikes if negotiations
03:08collapse.
03:09The ceasefire is holding.
03:11But it is holding barely.
03:13When a country starts firing into its own night sky and no one admits to sending what they were shooting
03:19at.
03:19The war isn't over.
03:21It's just waiting.
03:22The war isn't over.
03:24The war isn't over.
03:40The war unusualununotions.
03:43That888 Rickan...
03:43What's running?
03:45The war is ending.
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