overnight Israel began military operations against Iran with a stated goal of once and for all destroying the Iranian nuclear program Today we're going to get into what we know so far as this campaign continues to play out And that's important This is not a series of a couple strikes This is going to be a sustained military campaign for hours days maybe even weeks So what we know at this point is that Israeli aircraft about 200 struck more than 100 targets all across Iran That included nuclear facilities and we have some footage of those clearly burning at this point although I'd be hesitant to say that they were fully destroyed quite yet Also the specific targeting of senior Iranian personnel military leadership as well as key officials in their nuclear program Uh right now the Israel is referring to this operation as strength of a lion and saying that they had to go after the Iranian nuclear program because there is an imminent threat building in the coming days So what we're going to do today is update this as of 6:30 a.m on Friday June 13 2025 The plan will be to come back and provide additional details as more information is known in the coming hours Starting out with the effects of these strikes so far Again a lot of footage showing the destruction across Iran today Not just fires burning throughout Thran last night and smoke rising above the skyline Uh but also clearly some nuclear facilities with smoke emanating from those given the fact of how far underground some of these enrichment facilities are It would not be wise at this point to say that the Iranian nuclear program has been eliminated That's a challenging thing to do from the sky at baseline We should expect and Israel is saying this is the case a prolonged campaign continually going after those facilities for some time now Right now we already have confirmation from Iranian media of at least three senior Iranian officials that were eliminated in last night's strike So this does not appear to have just been a campaign going after the physical aspects of the nuclear program and the Iranian military because we certainly have some air defense assets that were hit last night as well and some long-range missiles but also some senior officials Right now we're hearing that the chief of staff of the armed forces of the Iranian regime Muhammad Beageri was eliminated And there was some back and forth yesterday as to whether or not they were actually killed but all in all Iranian media was pretty quick in confirming the death of some of these senior officials Uh just as notable we have the commander of the IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hassam Salami who just a couple days ago was issuing threats about how any sort of Iranian and/or US attack against the Iranian nuclear facilities would be met with direct strikes against US military bases in the region Have to mention of course here the curse of Solommani continues We have a picture of Salami No surprise given that he's the head of the IRGC with the late Solommani There's kind of a theme Anybody that gets their picture taken with Solommani before too off along ends up on the wrong end of a drone strike And the last one here that's been confirmed today Again this list continues to grow I've seen the uh the head of the Iranian uh the IRGC or the Iranian military emergency command Golam Ali Rasheed Now there's also been a number of senior Iranian nuclear officials that have been eliminated We have some pictures uh showing their residences in Thrron office buildings or homes that were hit overnight You can see some of these penthouse locations in downtown Tyrron that were struck And we do have some confirmation from uh Iranian media that a handful of those folks were eliminated as well This is something we talked about in yesterday's video just leading up to this attack was when you're trying to eliminate the nuclear program It's not enough at this point to just destroy the facilities There's a lot of knowledge inside of Iran especially with these these scientists of how to if the facilities are destroyed to get right back to this place in the relative near future So appears at this point Israel went after not just the physical locations but also the brain power behind the nuclear program We also did see that Israel went after quite a few surfaceto-air missile systems and long range missile systems at the beginning of this campaign It looks like right now Israel carried out MSAD specifically carried out something very much similar to the Ukrainian operation spiderweb a couple weeks ago The information that we have right now is it appears that MSAD smuggled in a series of short-range drones pre-staged those near some key locations And as this attack began to carry out by Israel which there's still some speculation about how much of it was missiles how much was aircraft and was there anyone on the ground carrying out sabotage type operations but nonetheless as that was playing out we do have some footage that's been released showing MSAD on the ground in Iran carrying out some of these short-range strikes According to some reporting from Manny Fabian of the Times of Israel he says "According to an Israeli official MSAD built a secret explosive drone base in Iran for this morning's operation The drones were used to strike ballistic missile launchers at a base near Thran preventing Iran from firing projectiles at Israel as this morning's strikes began Additionally vehicles carrying weapon systems were smuggled into Iran These systems took out Iran's air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action over Iran A third covert effort involved MSAD's commandos deploying precision missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Iran So you can view that as confirmation of people on the ground carrying out strikes against Iran as this all began We've not seen footage of those precision missile strikes against anti-aircraft sites but nonetheless that is the Israeli claim right now I hope we're paying attention in the United States selfishly to this threat of inexpensive short range uh loitering munitions or drones whatever you want to call them being smuggled into hostile territory So for Ukraine going into Russia hostile territory for MSAD Israel going into Iran hostile territory effectively getting these in and carrying out what are strategically damaging blows Right so in the case of Russia and Ukraine they took out some of Russia's nuclear capable bombers It's no joke In this case it appears they would Israel went after some of the Iranian missiles that would have been aimed and could have responded in short order to these strikes These are serious assets being taken out very very quickly in relatively inexpensive man We're not looking for that right we're looking for the missiles We're looking for the aircraft I don't know that very many countries around the world the United States included right now is looking for short-range drones coming out of the back of a container or a vehicle near a sensitive location Nonetheless looks like there's no indication I should mention at this point that Ukraine and Israel teamed up on this in any way shape or form although Ukraine would certainly be happy to see uh Thrron burning given uh Iran's support for Russia in their war Now I want to start over with or I want to start with uh some statements here coming directly from IDF and Israeli officials Starting with kind of an explanation of why this had to happen Now we're going to turn to the IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Let's give that a listen For years the Iranian regime has called for the destruction of the state of Israel planning and advancing concrete military plans to do so Over the past few months intelligence has shown that Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon This morning the IDF began preemptive and precise strikes targeting the Iranian nuclear program in order to prevent the Iranian regime's ability to build a nuclear bomb in the immediate time frame We have no choice We are operating against an imminent and existential threat We cannot allow the Iranian regime to obtain a nuclear weapon that would be a danger to Israel and the entire world This operation is for our right to exist here for our future and for our children's future The state of Israel has the right and the obligation to operate in order to protect its people and will continue to do so The IDF conducted significant preparations for this operation We are wellprepared both in defense and offense to defend ourselves The IDF will continue to defend the state of Israel So in line with that we should mention that just in the last couple days the IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a report that for the first time in 20 years Iran is in violation of their non-prololiferation obligations And then yesterday Israel released additional footage and documentation highlighting that Iran was of course not just not in compliance as the IAEA the UN's nuclear watchdog stated but also that they were working towards the development of a nuclear bomb And we're closer today than they have ever been So this is Israel presenting proof Again you're hearing the term there preemptive strike saying they had to do this now and they couldn't afford to wait any longer because Iran was getting so dangerously close to the development of their first nuclear weapon Now continuing on with some IDF statements here to pull out some other aspects not mentioned in General Definence statement The IDF said quote "For years Iran has been directly and indirectly promoting terrorism against the state of Israel financing and directing terrorists act through its proxies through the Middle East while advancing towards nuclear weapons The Iranian regime is the primary perpetrator of all terrorist attacks committed against the state of Israel since the beginning of the Iron Sword War including arming and financing the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for the events of October 7th During the Iron Sword War Iran attacked even attack Iran even attacked Israel twice firing hundreds of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles into the country The Iranian regime has a stated goal of destroying the state of Israel Senior Iranian regime officials declare this and are working to realize it with their envoys in the Middle East Iran is closer today than ever to obtaining nuclear weapons Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are a threat to the state of Israel and a significant threat to the entire world The state of Israel will not allow a regime whose goal is the destruction of the state of Israel to possess weapons of mass destruction Now we're going to get to some statements from US President Trump here in a moment but that's also been the stance that he's taken And the United States stance for a long time is that Iran cannot be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons The Israeli stance right now is that that time had come put up or shut up they were so close that the only viable option at this point was kinetic military strikes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated quote "In recent months Iran has taken steps in the field of armaments that have never been never never done before This is a weapon that could threaten our very existence We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and nuclear weaponization efforts We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility at Natans We also targeted leading Iranian nuclear scientists working on the bomb as well as the core of Iran's ballistic missile program Again pretty widespread attacks so far today and it's just beginning By all accounts this is going to go on for some time The uh chief of staff of the IDF added to this saying quote "Civilians of Israel these are decisive days We are currently at the start of a new phase in the operation to secure our future." It's no doubt decisive days We've been hearing about the possibility the necessity at times of striking the Iranian nuclear program for about 20 years now So this is significant to say the least Zamir continues saying "We began this operation because the time has come We are at the point of no return We cannot afford to wait for another time to operate We have no other choice Recent and past events of history have taught us that when the enemy is attempting to destroy us we must not turn a blind eye As such we need to fight for our existence The freedom is given to those willing to fight for it." Civilians of Israel I can't promise absolute success The Iranian regime will attempt to attack us in response The expected toll will be different than what we are used to The IDF is prepared to defend the Israeli homeront And I ask for you to be responsible for yourselves for your family for your communities and listen to instructions We are calling up tens of thousands of soldiers and prepared across all borders I warned that anyone who will try to challenge us will pay a heavy price We are entering this operation together with one goal to secure a safer future for the state of Israel and its civilians in a in a unified effort and faith We will win 77 years since the state of Israel was established the nation of the Jewish people founded after the Holocaust we stand again for survival Now looking at a couple other reactions and statements here as this was beginning a major question was how is the United States going to be involved if at all and it appears at this point we were not In fact that was hammered home by Secretary of State Rubio issuing a statement as soon as this operation began saying quote "Tonight Israel took unilateral action against Iran We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region." Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners Let me be clear Iran should not target US interests or personnel And of course that's a major concern as we look towards the Iranian response here is as mentioned in yesterday's video there are a lot more American than Israeli targets for Iran to strike in the Middle East And generally speaking those targets are softer They might be military bases consulates or embassies but in terms of the quantity of air defense overseeing some of those assets it's nowhere near what when you look at the entire state of Israel So I wouldn't set it aside completely that Iran decides to or wouldn't uh brush it aside entirely that Iran doesn't go after US assets In fact some of their statements already today are conflating this Israeli attack with their support from the United States and in some ways saying they're one and the same President Trump then earlier today issued a statement saying quote "I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal I told them in the strongest words to just do it But no matter how hard they tried no matter how close they got they just couldn't get it done I told them it would be much worse than anything they know anticipated or were told that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world by far and that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come and they know how to use it." Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely but they didn't know what was about to happen They're all dead now and it will only get worse There's already been great death and destruction but there is still time to make this slaughter with the next There's still time to make this slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal to come to an end Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire No more death no more destruction Just do it before it's too late Now technically there's still talks set to be had this Sunday I haven't heard the United States cancel those although Iran has said they're probably not going to participate in those nuclear negotiations uh with the United States Now turning over to the Iranian response so far remember leading up to this there were a lot of threats saying they would go after US military bases across the region Uh they talked about the development and the testing of a two-tonon missile warhead a warhead that was delivered on a missile suggesting that it could be um some sort of nuclear capable device What we're seeing so far a couple statements here coming from the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces Quote "The Zionist enemy in the United States will pay a very heavy price Iran will respond harshly against the Zionist regime The Zionist attack on civilian areas has been verified and our response will be certain Iran is 100% military capable and the enemy will suffer a painful blow Here's the thing It looks like the Israeli attack was focused not just at destroying the Iranian nuclear infrastructure but also preventing their ability to respond in a timely and effective manner So when you go after the senior leaders of an organization that at baseline is going to slow the ability of the Iranian regime to carry out a response On top of that it looks like Israel went after quite a few missile facilities with that you know secret covert drone operation hitting targets all around Tyrron What we have seen so far is maybe 100 Iranian drones so far launched against Israel which is not much of a response given what we've seen in the past Public Israeli estimates were as many as 600 drones and missiles being fired in the first wave We haven't seen that yet Iran continues to say that it's on its way I also want to stress that depending on which Iranian source you look at some of them are adding the United States to the list of those responsible Others are exclusively saying Israel The drone strikes so far from what I can see all of them were effectively intercepted or crashed before entering Israeli airspace It does appear that some of them were intercepted by Saudi Arabia Uh there were reports that the United States and the UK may have been involved in the interception as well but that was not confirmed and I've not seen any statements from those two governments Neither either way uh none of those drones made it into Israeli airspace let alone impacted inside of Israel There was some speculation last night that the Iranian Supreme Leader Ham would issue a declaration of war against Israel That still has not come but I thought it was worth going into his statement The one thing he's mentioned so far following this first round of Israeli strikes he said "The Zionist regime at dawn today opened its dirty and bloody hand in a crime in our beloved country and revealed its evil nature more than ever by striking residential centers The regime must expect severe punishment The powerful hand of the Islamic Republic's armed forces will not abandon him." Several commanders and scientists were martyed in the enemy attacks Their successors and colleagues will immediately resume their duties God willing With this crime the Zionist regime prepared it for itself a bitter and painful fate and it will definitely receive it Now the big question now is what does Iran do in response we should expect to see Israeli strikes continue It looks like they've got they mentioned it earlier not air superiority air supremacy and that appears to be the case We've seen in the last couple years really mostly the last couple months u Israel has pretty successfully degraded the Iranian air defense network and we knew that they had taken some hits At this point it looks like they can go wherever they want in Iranian airspace There's no indications that any Israeli aircraft were shot down And all reports from Israel is that all pilots returned home pilots and aircraft returned home safely So when looking at the possible Iranian response here the big one of course being drones and missiles like we've seen them carry out in recent years but there's a couple other aspects here as well They do have kind of non-traditional non-conventional means of striking back A big one of course being their proxy networks across the Middle East There was some concern last night that maybe Hezbollah in Lebanon still there to a degree The Houthis down in Yemen or a variety of Iranianbacked militias in Iraq would begin carrying out attacks on behalf of Iran We haven't seen that yet It's possible It's always in the cards We haven't seen that at this point We also have to keep an eye out for the possibility of terrorist attacks carried out abroad against embassies consulates or strategic assets for the United States Israel and other Western partners And then last but not least cyber attacks Iran does have a pretty significant cyber capability I wouldn't rule that out entirely especially if some of their more kinetic means of attack like their missiles and their senior military officials that would uh help carry out those strikes are no longer around to put those into action But again this is what we know as of now 6:48 now On Friday June 13 2025 We'll update this as we get more information but pretty historic event as Israel begins operations to militarily take out the Iranian nuclear program But that's all I've got for now Thanks for watching and I'll see youall next time [Music] [Music] Heat