I have watched the video. You need to watch it too.
An Iranian drone flies low between buildings in Manama, Bahrain, and detonates against the face of a high-rise. Not near it. Not above it. Into it. The explosion is immediate. Fire erupts across multiple floors. Smoke pours from the impact point. Car alarms scream from the street below. People run. This is not a military base. This is a residential neighborhood in the capital of a sovereign nation that Iran is not at war with.
Bahrain hosts the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. The IRGC targeted that base. What the IRGC hit was the city around it. CNN verified video of strikes at the US Navy service center in Manama. NBC News confirmed attacks. Smoke rising above the skyline. And now this footage of a Shahed-136 suicide drone, the same design Iran mass-produces for 50,000 dollars each, the same weapon it shipped to Russia to terrorize Ukrainian cities, flying between apartment towers in a Gulf capital and slamming into a building full of people.
Zero fatalities confirmed so far. That is a miracle, not a strategy.
Iran claimed it was targeting American military installations. The Shahed-136 has a CEP, circular error probable, that makes precision targeting in dense urban environments a mathematical impossibility. You do not launch suicide drones at a naval base surrounded by residential towers and then claim you were only aiming at the base. You launched a weapon you cannot precisely control into a city of 700,000 people. The building it hit was not collateral damage. It was the predictable outcome of firing imprecise weapons into populated areas. International humanitarian law has a word for that. It is called indiscriminate attack. It is a war crime whether the drone hit what Iran intended or not.
Count the civilian infrastructure Iran struck in a single morning. A passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport. Hotels on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. A high-rise building in Manama. A civilian killed in Abu Dhabi. Airspace closed across six countries. Tens of thousands of passengers stranded. And now video of a drone detonating against a residential building that someone’s family was inside when it hit.
Iran did not attack America today. Iran attacked apartment buildings, airports, and hotels. The footage from Bahrain is not a military operation. It is a confession. It is visual, undeniable, shareable proof that Iran launched weapons into cities it cannot aim and hit buildings it did not intend to and will not apologize for.
Every frame of this video is a war crime filing itself.
And every government watching it tonight is making the same calculation: if Iran will do this to Bahrain, what will it do to us.