00:13Smoke rising over the desert, a $5 million American weapon system reportedly gone in seconds.
00:22This is the story Iran wants the world to hear.
00:25July 12, 2026, Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims its drones just took out American HIMARS rocket launchers sitting in Kuwait —
00:36missiles they say were prepared to fire toward Iran.
00:40If true, it's a direct hit on one of America's most prized precision weapons in the Gulf.
00:46According to Farce News Agency, Iran's state media outlet, drone strikes slammed into a forward site housing U.S. M142
00:56HIMARS launchers and their rocket containers.
00:59The message from Tehran was blunt — these weren't just sitting there, they were armed and ready to strike Iranian
01:07soil.
01:07Iran says the destruction was complete, total, a knockout blow against American ground-based firepower in the region.
01:15And this didn't come out of nowhere — it's being framed as direct payback, retaliation for a wave of U
01:23.S. strikes on Iranian coastal defenses, radar sites, and IRGC naval assets just days earlier.
01:30So, why does a single rocket launcher matter?
01:34Because HIMARS isn't just any weapon — it's mobile, it's precise, and it can reach deep into enemy territory from
01:41hundreds of miles away — that's the whole point of stationing it in Kuwait.
01:46Take that capability off the board, even partially, and you've disrupted a key piece of America's strike options in the
01:53Gulf.
01:53Each unit runs somewhere between $3.5 and $5.5 million, add munitions and support gear, and the price tag
02:02and the message gets even bigger.
02:04Here's the twist. As of this recording, U.S. Central Command has said nothing. No confirmation, no denial. Silence.
02:12And that matters, because Iranian state media has a track record here.
02:17Previous claims during this conflict have sometimes turned out exaggerated, or simply unconfirmed by any independent source.
02:25Kuwait, meanwhile, has been caught in the crossfire for months, intercepting missiles, absorbing debris strikes, often working side-by-side
02:34with U.S. defenses.
02:35This is one more flashpoint in a retaliation cycle that's been escalating for weeks — strikes, counterstrikes, a ceasefire hanging
02:44by a thread.
02:44Whether or not this particular claim holds up, the pattern is clear. The Gulf is getting more dangerous, not less.
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