US Military Operations in Iran

Let me say, the sequence got messed up, and it went like this: first, uh, the news—

a series of explosions was reported from Qeshm

Island. As time went on, I saw CNN’s

report, at least, which came through American sources. The guys also each have

documents they’re going to broadcast.

Uh, they announced the American operation.

Then a statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came out, saying

they’d reported our own operation. This is now

the report CNN published: the U.S. military carried out limited attacks on Monday

on Iran’s Qeshm Island.

Three U.S. officials told CNN the action was defensive in nature

and was carried out to protect U.S. assets in the region.

Well,

uh, aside from the fact that, in terms of content, the message is completely

ridiculous, and the Americans have no business in our beloved country

that they would need to defend anything. I mean, this is playing with

language. It's what you might call linguistic framing to normalize,

to make aggression seem normal. What happened

After that, we also had the IRGC statement. Guys, if you could,

then play the MQ-9 interception video, if possible, in

that same order.

The timing was as follows: yes, this is the fifty- fifth

MQ-9 to have been targeted.

The American MQ-9 drone had violated

our airspace, and their drone was intercepted.

Then the enemy tried to fire on the area where the interception

had taken place. Our interception was successful.

As far as I’ve learned, the strike the enemy

carried out, thank God, couldn’t hit anything significant, and as

far as we’ve been told, thank God, we had no martyrs or wounded.

Uh, but there was some back-and-forth.

Aside from that, two Lucas drones were also

intercepted near Bandar Khamir, to be precise.

Yes.

And these are the Lucas drones. That footage

of the interception—

I’d sent the MQ-9 interception video too. Guys, if you could—

Guys, play that too—

Yeah, let them broadcast it, so tracking is tracking.

That was interesting. By the time these Lucases watch this video...

The Lucases—

Lucas is exactly the drone they copied from this very Shahed-136

and use as a suicide drone.

And now, with two of these, they really intended to carry out an operation,

They wanted to target somewhere, and when we intercepted these two,

they completely abandoned the operation. It's a bit of a scenario...

uh, far-fetched.

They're probably using this drone, which is now their cheapest asset in the

arsenal. They might be

using it purely for reconnaissance.

They might also send it into areas so they can monitor it from afar

and find the locations of our air-defense ambushes.

And here's the video of that exact warhead being hit by our interceptor.

I mean, in the end—

The impact—

Yes, it reaches the second one, this MQ-9. The MQ-9, too.

If you look, now the kids can move forward a bit because

the video is long.

I should mention, the MQ-9 is carrying at least two under—

two missile wings,

missiles, which we can guess are Hellfires.

These are the very missiles it used to attack, a few days ago, our fishing boats and

target them.

Originally, these are air-to-ground missiles, designed against მოძრable targets,

anti-tank. Look, these are exactly—

This image is the first time, as far as I remember—

Yes, it's the first time—

I don't think I've seen an image like this.

No, we hadn't released an image like this before.

So now, for the first time in the world, we have footage of an MQ-9 right up to the moment it hits a—

We'd taken down fifty-four, fifty-five. We hit the fifty-fifth one like this, with

the footage too.

Yes, we hit it like this, which shows that—

it goes layer by la— it hits the back there, probably, I don't know.

It has a thermal seeker.

Nima, what do you think about this?

I guess it processes images.

Besides whatever sensors it might have— I don't know what they are—

it also processes images. If it has a

thermal sensor, they can just use flares, like—

dropping decoys—

to distract it—

That seeker, to put it simply, tracks the heat source.

The aircraft try to drop those flares away from themselves.

Their heat is higher than the heat from the aircraft's exhaust.

That is, materials are used that burn at a high temperature.

It gets distracted and goes after them.

But when something like image processing is added to it—

—

it won't be distracted anymore—

No, not anymore, with one—with a

single sensor, it doesn't just track one thing. It can track several, and this was

an example of that.