Tehran / Washington — The air war over Iran has entered a new and far more dangerous phase after the United States deployed its B‑2 Spirit stealth bombers into the fight, striking deeply buried missile and command complexes that Tehran once touted as invulnerable “underground cities.”
Flying from undisclosed bases and refuelling quietly over allied territory, the bat‑winged bombers slipped through Iran’s battered air‑defence network under heavy electronic‑warfare cover. In a single night, they dropped waves of GPS‑guided “bunker buster” munitions on hardened Revolutionary Guard facilities carved into mountain ranges near Kermanshah, Khuzestan and central Iran. Satellite images now show collapsed tunnel entrances, cratered access roads and scorched blast doors blown off their hinges.
Flying from undisclosed bases and refuelling quietly over allied territory, the bat‑winged bombers slipped through Iran’s battered air‑defence network under heavy electronic‑warfare cover. In a single night, they dropped waves of GPS‑guided “bunker buster” munitions on hardened Revolutionary Guard facilities carved into mountain ranges near Kermanshah, Khuzestan and central Iran. Satellite images now show collapsed tunnel entrances, cratered access roads and scorched blast doors blown off their hinges.
Flying from undisclosed bases and refuelling quietly over allied territory, the bat‑winged bombers slipped through Iran’s battered air‑defence network under heavy electronic‑warfare cover. In a single night, they dropped waves of GPS‑guided “bunker buster” munitions on hardened Revolutionary Guard facilities carved into mountain ranges near Kermanshah, Khuzestan and central Iran. Satellite images now show collapsed tunnel entrances, cratered access roads and scorched blast doors blown off their hinges.
Pentagon officials say the objective was to “rip out the claws” of the IRGC by destroying launch silos, missile stockpiles and hardened command bunkers that had survived earlier F‑35 and cruise‑missile strikes. Early assessments suggest dozens of medium‑ and long‑range missiles were destroyed in their shafts, along with critical infrastructure used to coordinate salvos on Israel and US bases across the Gulf.
Iranian state TV insists “core capabilities remain intact,” but unusually muted IRGC spokesmen admit “temporary disruption” to several brigades and vow that “new claws will grow.” Analysts note that if B‑2 raids can repeatedly reach and crush the tunnels Tehran once sold as its ultimate deterrent, Iran’s entire missile strategy may be forced into the open — where every new launcher becomes a target the moment it moves.
