U.S. Special Ops Raids In Iran Is Worse Than You Think

Welcome to today’s video everybody. It’s April 1st, 2026, day 33 of Operation Epic Fury. And right now, special operations forces, special operations teams have been rolling towards the Middle East on a whole new level. And in addition to that, aircraft that could be teaming up handin glove with the special operations teams like the A10, the AH64, and the AC130J.

And advanced drones are in the as well. that could be working with these special operations teams to make it happen on a surgical level. We know so far the A-10 Warthog, the AH64, they’re owning the skies over Iran when it comes to targeting the drones, especially on the southern flank.

They’re chewing up fast attack boats that are trying to mess with the Straits of Hormuz. tank busting A-10 beast flying low and slow with their GA 8 Avenger 30mm cannon spinning up 7,000 rounds a minute turning Iranian naval remnants into scrap metal while providing that rock solid closeair support that is uniquely suited for the special operators should they need to go in for surgical operations but the rhetoric from Iran isn’t slowing down as you can imagine Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Agarachi insisted US messages via intermediaries are not negotiations and

lack any basis for trust, rejecting American ceasefire proposals as unrealistic. While publicly threatening US troops and urging regional allies to expel American forces, the A-10 Warthog is likely going to be the one if the special operators go in to actually show Iran who’s in charge of the country. They’ll be teaming up with A10s, AC130Js.

But it sounds like who’s ever being negotiated with isn’t Agarachi. He’s kind of the last one to get picked. And he’s like, “Guys, what about me? I’m here. Don’t forget about me.” And the US is like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. We’re dealing with someone else now.” And speaking of the latest breaking news, President Trump has said to a British newspaper outlet that, “Yeah, the US is considering leaving NATO as what he cast as lackluster military support for the Iran war.

” Trump said the US war could be done within two or three weeks and he’ll deliver an address to the nation tonight. Tran though fired back as they do. They said they’re prepared for at least 6 months more of fighting at this point. And then also President Trump says the US may exit Iran war soon as new attacks hit Gulf States and Iran today.

So Iran is still doing what they do with their drones and ballistic missiles. They’ve still got some capability. But here’s the big bombshell. President Trump posted this on Truth Social. He said, “Iran’s new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire.

” And he went on to say that we will consider when Hormuse Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion, or as they say, back to the stone ages, President Donald J. Trump. So, Agarachi, who we’ve heard the rhetoric from in the early parts of this video, is not the one who’s being negotiated with.

Sounds like there’s some internal fractures and someone else is coming to the table as someone who’s legitimately negotiating with the United States. Or at least Trump is making Agarachi not sleep too well at night, thinking that there could be an internal fracture happening within the IRGC or the upper levels of the civilian leadership.

But in the last 12 hours, US and allied forces have been bringing the heat on a massive level. 12,000 sorties flown with bombers, fighter aircraft, B-52 Stratofortress bomber runs inside of Iran now, A10s lighting up and doing dynamic targeting. Dynamic targeting is when you’re airborne, you’re in your cockpit, you’re headed towards your target area, and you get a dynamic tasking to shift and go to some other target.

A lot of that is likely ballistic missiles that have wheeled themselves out of mountain hideouts. And also we know that Isafon was lit up last night and that is home to critical air bases and nuclear related sites which brings us to the special operations forces and what they could be used for. So to assess did the nuclear program get wiped out? You actually need boots on the ground to go in there and test the different areas to see if any of those centrifuges are still working.

Right now, overall, the amount of US troops in the region is exceeding 50,000. And now there’s rumors that have confirmed some special operations teams that are in the region. And that could be in the low hundreds, could be a thousand special forces members drawing primarily from Joint Special Operations Command or JOC.

Those are assets that include the 75th Ranger Regiment, Navy Seals, and Delta Force. The Rangers are confirmed for rapid direct action raids, airfield seizures, and securing key terrain through parachute, helicopter, or boat insertions. Basically, any way that they want to roll in, they roll in with style.

And as you’ve seen during my live streams, we do a lot of target breakdowns and debriefs. There are a lot of different airfields that could be seized or seizing some of the IRGC inn, that’s the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. Some of their specified locations where they’re operating some of their fast attack boats. The smaller fast attack boats are the harder ones to hit.

So, sending in some special operations teams. Yeah, here’s a little bit of C4 on your fast attack craft. Good luck with that. But think about Navy Seals. They’re bringing confirmed maritime expertise. They could do beach landings, vessel interdictions, underwater demolitions, and covert reconnaissance. That might be one of the main things they could be called in to do to do covert reconnaissance to make sure some of this battle damage assessment on IRGC headquarters, naval compounds, nuclear compounds are confirmed. And then think Delta Force

operators. They are likely in the theater leading the charge should anything go down. They’re there for counterterrorism operations, hostage rescues, high-value target eliminations, as we saw them completely decimate Venezuela, go in and scoop Nicholas Maduro up in his undies in the middle of the night.

So, their ability to eliminate high-v value targets or capture them with precision really can’t be matched. These units remain unassigned to specific missions publicly, but they’re in the theater to give options to the US administration. They represent flexible options for limited footprint operations in denied Iranian territory that’s extremely hard to assess battle damage or the status of certain bunkers or nuclear operations.

The potential for rapid reinforcement from additional Ranger battalions or SEAL teams that are already postured in the region can’t be understated. This gives you all the options. This gives you all the cards basically some of the potential missions that could happen. Think high priority objectives like safeguarding or reopening the Straits of Hormuz through coastal raids backed up by A10 warthogs.

Yeah, nothing’s going to be better backup than a little BERT overhead that’s coming in to protect your position as you’re doing a raid on an IRGCN compound, for example, or Iranian naval remnants going in and striking any of their subs, making sure that none of their ability to execute chaos in the Straits of Hormuz remains. and then think about seizing or neutralizing K Island.

Now, you’ve heard me talk about this before. This is not the best idea if you don’t have air supremacy over the drones and the ballistic missiles, but if at some point air supremacy is established and you won’t just be basically held hostage on the island by drones. I mean, special operators are incredibly smart. They’re not going to just go to the island and put up a flag and be like, “Hey, we’re the SEAL teams on Cars Island.

Please don’t target us, Iran.” No, these dudes are next level super big brain elite athlete style level of people. So, there would be a strategic way to make that happen. However, having Car Island as a target for Iran is something they would love. They would love to be able to execute chaos against teams that are there if they were able to find, fix, and target them themselves.

Remember, K Island, that’s the hub for 90% of Iran’s oil exports. But not just Car Island, because Car Island at this point is likely not the most strategic point, but you could operate it and do operations in K Island without actually being there. I mean, there’s lots of options for that as well. Think amphibious, assault ships, marine expeditionary units. Those are still there.

Those are the guys that she told you not to worry about. Yeah, there’s all these special operators and special forces in the area. However, we’ve got Marine Recon on a lot of these different assets, and they don’t need to just go sit on Car Island in their loungers and wait for Iranian drones to hit them.

They’ve got other ways to make that happen. And then think about Army Rangers. They could lead airfield seizures in the different ports that we’ve seen that all basically have an airfield. So if the US ever wanted those or decided to take those with air superiority and air supremacy over the drones, the Rangers would likely lead those airfield seizures going in taking areas and then allowing US operations to happen from those areas.

And the SEALs are basically highlevel surgeons with a gun. When I think of what they’re uniquely suited for, high value targeting, these niche operations where you basically need someone who’s a complete surgeon with a weapon. and you send in the SEAL teams. You send in SEAL team six to make that happen. But when it comes to actual amphibious operations and operating in the water itself, yeah, the SEAL Seals, don’t worry. We know you can do that.

I’m not saying that all the SEALs watching the channel just went out and bought a truck with massive truck tires to compensate. Seals, you don’t need to compensate. We know you guys are awesome with your weapons. But when it comes to amphibious operations, having Marine Recon, who basically lives in the water, amphibious operations is the name of the game for Marine Recon, sending them in to secure ports, high-v value targeting, different underwater ballistic missions to take down specific assets or even close some of these little ports that

are full of hundreds of these fast attack boats. If you just close off the entrance to these things and the boats can’t leave, well, now you don’t actually have to hit a hundred of these little boats with explosives. You just shut down the port itself. And then don’t sleep on Delta Force. Obviously, Delta teams could execute surgical high-v value target operations or even sensitive site exploitation in heavily defended areas.

SSE, sensitive site exploitation. This is something where the teams go in, they figure out all the different intel that they can gather from an enemy site. Think hard drives, safes, the places where the IRGC might be hiding their grubby little plans to show what they’re going to be up to next.

And then these could be supported by the 82nd Airborne for larger scale reinforcements. It said 1 to 2,000 members of the 82nd Airborne are in the region right now. So imagine these niche teams going in to take down specific high-v value targets and you back that up with the 82nd airborne for larger scale reinforcement. Wait until you hear about Iran’s limited response and what they would actually do against these teams.

Because Iran’s rhetoric is just continuing by the day. Sencom just posted this. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps says it attacked the residents of American pilots and air crew in Saudi Arabia with a drone and missile impacting a gathering of 200 people. Fact, IRGC leaders said the same thing for Dubai on March 28th and it is false. The Iranian regime’s claims were false and are a false now for Saudi Arabia.

No US personnel have been attacked in Saudi Arabia by those drones and missiles that Iran is claiming, but they’re going to keep going with that rhetoric. Right now, we’ve got a low volume stretch of drones and missiles from Iran, but their proxies are also lighting up as well. It’s said that some of the proxies might have actually hit that Kuwaiti tanker and they’re obviously firing missiles at Israel as well, but those are being struck down by the Iron Dome.

Cracking open a second front is the whole goal here for Iran. They want that second front to take away the focus from Iran itself, and they want Israel to focus on that. I mean, there’s so many different options besides just occupying K Island. But now imagine how fast the IRGC could collapse once these ground teams take out their ability to receive funding.

If these ground teams are focused on shutting down their steel production, energy flows, there’s a lot of things that the IRGC would feel. They would feel that pinch if their source of income starts to slow down. So would these special operations teams be used for that? Well, we’re talking about right now a broader buildup with special operations, likely in the 500 to 1,000 level.

So, these teams have varied uses and could be used for a lot of different options to gut the naval assets of Iran and take away their last big domino. Well, the other domino is the missile and drone attacks, which are dropping dramatically. But now, you team up these special operations forces and you decisively remove Iran’s ability to threaten the Straits of Hormuz.

But now that we know how many special operators are there, what they could likely do, get ready for the real hammer of what they would bring to the fight, and we’ll talk about the different air assets that could be involved with special forces. So, first we got to hit on the A-10 Thunderbolt 2 ultimate of the skies for close air support.

It’s got a titanium bathtub for the pilot to protect the pilot from any small arms fire. It’s got a GA 8 Avenger 30 mm cannon that spits depleted uranium rounds that turn armored targets or fast attack craft into Swiss cheese from a mile away. It’s loaded with Mavericks, rockets, bombs. These birds deliver persistent closeair support exactly where these special operators would need it.

But now that we have an overall picture, let’s move to the 40 chest strategic analysis section. Because the US has degraded Iran’s navy and missile forces so badly that they’re basically operating on fumes at this point. They’ve created leverage while keeping the door cracked slightly for a deal with specific elements of a regime in Iran.

The straits of for moves and cars island, those are key geographic prizes. Control them and you control the oil flow and the regime’s wallet. And the regime’s wallet is what has been paying the IRGC. So, a lot of it goes back to the money. If you can focus on cutting off the payments to the IRGC and the payments have to flow through a new regime, bingo.

Now you’ve got the IRGC because again they’re mafia bosses. They want money so they need to get paid. Special operations forces give that limited footprint and that scalpel instead of a full invasion. Navy Seals could execute beach landings and vessel interdictions to clear the remnants of the Iranian Navy from the straight. underwater demolitions to neutralize coastal defenses and covert reconnaissance to map where followon forces could come in, say from the 82nd airborne.

The 75th Rangers could seize airfields or conduct rapid raids on missile caches that are guarding specific choke points and specific areas of the straits of formoose. While Delta Force operators, those are the ones that would go in hit high-V value targets, basically Agarachi and anyone from the old regime, this would be their worst nightmare.

seeing a Delta Force member in the middle of the night while you’re in your undies. Ask Nicholas Maduro about that. Ask him how that worked out. But these teams emphasize quick in quick out actions that erode Iran’s ability to control the Straits of Formoose. And then you overlap those forces with A10s, AC130s, MQ9s, and you turn these into specific, highly targeted raids without turning this into a long slog of a ground invasion that no one wants to see.

Because when it comes to these special operations forces, it’s pretty clear that it’s not the size and number that matters. So you can disregard everything you’ve heard about the size mattering. But here’s a hypothetical situation. So if the talks stall with a new regime or the old regime starts to target and assassinate the new regime as these fractures happen in Iran, the straits could stay blocked for a longer period of time than anybody wants.

So a couple thousand Marines are right there from the Marine Expeditionary Unit. They could roll in alongside the special operators and even Marine recon themselves, seizing airfields, raiding missile caches, striking anyone in the IRGC Navy that hasn’t deserted yet that’s decided to be a hero. That might be one of the best uses of SEAL teams in the area.

And then securing their uranium sites around Istafon and you protect all these forces with the A10 flying overhead with that GA 8 cannon ripping apart threats around the insertion zones while MQ9 Reapers feed real-time targeting data. The Warhogs would be overlapping with AC-130s. Those are the replacement for the old AC-130 Spectre.

But the AH64s would be working with all these platforms as well, turning any Iranian counter move into a Turkey shoot as long as they’re focused on the counter drone technology. You have to have high-powered microwaves. You have to have an ability to strike down these drones in a way that Iran isn’t expecting. So having hundreds of special operators in the region to me this keeps the pressure on anybody in the IRGC who’s trying to do command and control that C2 operation to track ships in the Straits of Hormuz and have any vestage of leadership in their country.

What do you guys think? Do you think that special operators will be used in the next few days or next few weeks? Let me know in the comments below. Would love to hear what you think. Go ahead and follow me on X. Follow me on Instagram. I’m posting there pretty much every day. And then join the Max Ready room by clicking the link in the description.

When you do that, you can come to the lives and ask any questions you have and I do priority replies to the members and you get access to all the member videos. So, I’ll see you on this next video that pops up right here. This is Ryan, also known as Max After Burner, signing