Cabot Phillips

We saw a missile make it through the aerial defenses and blow up a warehouse.

The footage was just stunning to see, this huge explosion.

Thankfully, though, that was an empty warehouse.

There were no U.S.

soldiers inside of that building.

So again, to this point, still no U.S.

casualties there.

But Iran is trying very hard to get at American forces in the region.

And it's worth pointing out a lot of American bases in the region were evacuated or troops were moved to safer areas because we were anticipating these attacks happening.

Now, it's also worth pointing out that Iranian leaders have been saying for months that if the U.S.

targeted the Ayatollah and other members of the country's leadership, they would view that as an existential threat and respond with force the likes of which we've not seen in a generation.

That was their red line of sorts.

So it's already clear that this is a very different situation than what we saw back in June when Trump first hit Iran.

Now, remember, following those strikes, the Iranians offered a more restrained, mostly symbolic strike of their own.

They targeted a US base in Qatar.

But the Iranians said that if they were hit again, they would respond with the full force of their arsenal, and they're trying.

During Operation Midnight Hammer, the US successfully targeted Iranian missile stockpiles, and that significantly hindered their ability to launch retaliatory strikes down the road.

It looks like in this instance, Iran is trying to fire off as many of those missiles as possible to use them before they lose them.

And we've already seen an unprecedented flurry of explosions again, as we mentioned, across the Middle East.

As you can imagine, responses to the war, both for and against, are flooding in by the minute.