The United States and Israel have launched their most intense joint operation of the Iran war so far, with B‑2 Spirit stealth bombers pounding Iran’s underground weapons complexes in a relentless 12‑hour air ᴀssault, defence officials say.

The raid began just after midnight, when the first wave of B‑2s—supported by US B‑52s and Israeli F‑35s—slipped into Iranian airspace from multiple directions. Using satellite intel and bunker‑busting munitions, they struck a chain of buried “arsenal cities” believed to store ballistic missiles, Shahed‑style drones and precision‑guided rockets for the IRGC.

Infrared footage shows huge bursts punching through mountain ridges and desert plateaus, followed by mᴀssive secondary explosions as fuel depots and warhead bunkers ignited deep below ground. Analysts reviewing early satellite imagery point to collapsed tunnel mouths, scorched access roads and entire hillside complexes turned into smoking craters.

Tehran’s air defences fired barrages of surface‑to‑air missiles at ghost radar returns and decoy drones, but officials in Washington and Jerusalem say not a single B‑2 was hit. Iranian state TV admits “serious damage” at multiple “military storage sites” but vows that missiles and drones “will continue to fly until the last aggressor leaves the region.”

For ordinary Iranians, the onslaught was felt as distant thunder that didn’t stop—windows rattling in Tehran and Isfahan, power flickering in provincial towns, and social media filling with images of black plumes on the horizon.

As dawn breaks on a landscape scarred by one of the largest bomber operations since Iraq 2003, a stark question now hangs over every war room: did this 12‑hour strike crush Iran’s underground arsenal—or simply push the conflict to a point where both sides feel they have nothing left to hold back?