Even those who thought they had seen it all before said they had seen nothing like it. Iran is a country used to suffering. Older generations lived through the bombing and gassing of the war with Iraq in the 1980s.
In recent years there have been sanctions, economic chaos and military action in the name of the Axis of Resistance which took countless young Iranian lives.
But what the world’s two most sophisticated air forces, those of America and Israel, could achieve when working in concert was yet to be fully demonstrated.
