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Twenty-four hours ago there were seven countries in this conflict. Now there are twelve. By Monday there will be more.

Here is the full picture no single news feed is giving you.

Israel struck Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Tabriz, and Lorestan in a single coordinated operation timed to the moment Iran’s senior leadership gathered in one room. Daylight strikes at 8:15 a.m. because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting. Months of intelligence. One window. The first Israeli strike in history designed not to destroy a program but to decapitate a government.

Iran answered by firing missiles at every American installation it could reach. Bahrain’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Al Dhafra in the UAE. Al Udeid in Qatar. Ali Al Salem in Kuwait. Jordan shot down two ballistic missiles over its own territory. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from debris. Every Gulf defense system activated simultaneously for the first time. Most intercepts succeeded. Iran demonstrated range. It failed to demonstrate precision.

And then the dominoes fell.

Saudi Arabia, which four weeks ago personally promised Tehran it would never allow its territory to be used against Iran, released a statement pledging “all its capabilities” to support every attacked nation in “all measures they take.” Dubai shut down both international airports indefinitely. 280 flights canceled. Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Air India, Lufthansa, British Airways grounded or rerouting. The busiest international aviation hub on earth went dark because Iranian missiles were crossing its airspace.

Now watch what is moving in the shadows. Russia signed a 500-unit Verba MANPADS deal with Iran in December. China is finalizing CM-302 anti-ship missiles for the IRGC navy. Joint Russia-China-Iran naval drills ran through the Strait of Hormuz eleven days ago. But when the strikes landed, Moscow issued a statement. Beijing issued a statement. Neither moved a ship, a plane, or a soldier.

Russia called it “unprovoked armed aggression.” China called it “extremely dangerous hegemonic bullying.” Then both sat on their hands while their ally absorbed precision strikes on its capital and fired missiles into six sovereign nations, building the very coalition Russia and China spent a decade trying to prevent.

Iran needed its allies to act. They wrote press releases.

This is the architecture of isolation. In 48 hours Iran went from a nation with diplomatic channels to Oman, trade ties to China, arms deals with Russia, and détente with Saudi Arabia to a nation that attacked its own mediators, exhausted its missiles against interceptors, and watched its partners choose words over weapons.

The regime that survived the June war. The regime that survived 32,000 protester deaths. The regime that survived economic collapse. That regime now faces precision strikes, a six-nation coalition, closed airspace, frozen diplomacy, and allies who condemn on television what they will not contest on the battlefield.

The war is 24 hours old. Iran is already alone.