Iran-US Strikes/Air Defenses
Iran-US Strikes/Air Defenses
Dateline : July 22/21, 2026/File
Location : Iran
Duration : 1'47
Tehran, Iran - July 22, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
1. Air defense systems being activated
2. Various of buildings, traffic
FILE: Tehran, Iran - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
3. Various of Iranian national flag, city view
Iran - July 21, 2026 (IRIB - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
4. Various of suicide drones being launched
FILE: Kuwait - July 20, 2017 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of Kuwaiti national flag on building
FILE: Amman, Jordan - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of cityscape, national flag of Jordan
FILE: Bahrain - August 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. National flag of Bahrain
FILE: Manama, Bahrain - March 29, 2021 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. King's palace in Bahrain; national flags of Bahrain
Air defenses were activated around Tehran early on Wednesday as U.S. launched its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran.
Reporting from the Iranian capital, a China Media Group (CMG) crew captured footage of Tehran's air defense systems being continuously activated in the wee hours of Wednesday.
According to Iran's Nour News, the air defenses were in response to hostile targets entering the capital's airspace.
Multiple Iranian provinces came under U.S. attacks early Wednesday, including Hormozgan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Ilam and East Azerbaijan. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on X Tuesday that the strikes were "designed to continue degrading Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."
In a statement released early Wednesday, the Iranian Army said it launched a large number of suicide drones against ammunition depots and logistics facilities of the command center of the U.S. army's ground forces at Camp Doha in western Kuwait, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
According to an earlier statement carried by Tasnim, the Iranian Army said its suicide drones struck accommodation and welfare buildings and an equipment warehouse used by the U.S. military at the al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan, and subsequently targeted large equipment warehouses and aircraft maintenance hangars at the Shaikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.
Iran's main military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, warned early Wednesday that if the United States attacks Iran's nuclear and other sensitive sites, Tehran will consider it as an expansion of the war in the region and launch a "powerful attack" against the interests of the United States, its allies and supporters, Iranian state media reported.
The warning was in response to a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said Tuesday the United States would strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility "pretty soon", referring to a fortified underground facility in the Isfahan Province that Tehran declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2020 as the future site of an advanced centrifuge assembly plant.
ID : 8490757
Published : 2026-07-22 20:19
Last Modified : 2026-07-22 20:24:51
Source : China Central Television (CCTV),Other
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