Tehran / Tel Aviv — The Iran–Israel war has entered a new and far more dangerous phase after the IDF claimed a fresh wave of strikes has shattered a secret Iranian nuclear site and destroyed 300 ballistic missile launchers in a single coordinated operation.

In a late‑night briefing, Israeli commanders unveiled declassified satellite images showing a remote, mountain‑ringed facility in central Iran — described as a covert enrichment and weapons‑design complex — reduced to a blackened scar. Precision bunker‑buster munitions, reportedly dropped by F‑35s and guided by real‑time drone feeds, collapsed tunnels, ventilation shafts and underground halls that had never appeared on any public IAEA map.

Simultaneously, swarms of loitering munitions, long‑range missiles and stealth jets hunted Iran’s mobile missile brigades. Roads leading from known IRGC depots are now littered with charred transporter‑erector vehicles, cratered launch pads and burned-out fuel trucks. The IDF says the 300 launchers hit include platforms responsible for recent barrages on Tel Aviv, Haifa and US bases in the Gulf, declaring that “Iran’s long‑range fist has been broken.”

In Tehran, officials dismiss the numbers as “psychological warfare” but grudgingly admit to “serious damage” at multiple sites and “temporary disruption” of some missile units. Hardline commentators vow a wider retaliation “from Lebanon to the Red Sea,” even as commanders scramble to reconstitute shattered brigades and relocate surviving assets deeper inland.

Analysts warn that if Israel’s figures are even close to accurate, the military balance in the region has been jolted. Yet by ripping away so much of Iran’s conventional deterrent at once, the strikes may also push Tehran toward riskier tools — proxies, cyberattacks and asymmetric operations — making the next phase of this war even harder to predict, and far harder to contain.