00:20The U.S. military didn't just conduct strikes on Iranian soil.
00:25They filmed it, and then they released the footage.
00:28You can watch CENTCOM's video yourself.
00:32Radar domes, surveillance installations, gone.
00:35Sites on Keshe Island and at Golruk on the Iranian mainland reduced to smoke and rubble.
01:09And within hours of that footage going public, Iran launched seven ballistic missiles toward
01:16U.S. targets in Kuwait and Bahrain.
01:18Bahrain is where the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet is headquartered.
01:23Kuwait hosts major forward operating infrastructure.
01:27Both are close American partners in the Gulf.
01:30Ballistic missiles don't fly like aircraft.
01:33They arc up through the upper atmosphere at enormous speed, then come screaming back down
01:39nearly vertically, compressing the window for any defensive system to react to seconds.
01:46Air raid sirens went off across Manama, Kuwait activated defenses, and the intercept race was on.
01:53This is where those videos you've been seeing come from.
01:56Bright streaks tearing across the night sky, explosions blooming overhead.
02:02The whole horizon lighting up like a storm.
02:05That's not Iran hitting anything.
02:07That's Patriot batteries and Kuwaiti and Bahraini air defense systems firing interceptors that destroy
02:14incoming warheads mid-flight.
02:16Six of the seven missiles were killed in the air.
02:20The seventh failed to reach its target, falling short or breaking apart before impact.
02:26No U.S. personnel were killed.
02:28No confirmed structural damage to U.S. military facilities.
02:32Iran immediately claimed it had struck the 5th Fleet directly.
02:36State media ran the interception explosions as evidence.
02:40U.S. CENTCOM and Bahrain's defense ministry both denied any damage, flatly, with no ambiguity.
02:47This conflict is being fought in real time, on screens, in the sky, and in press releases,
02:54while nuclear talks stall and the Strait of Hormuz stays open by a thread.
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