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I Hope Iran Doesn't Destroy Our Secret Nuclear Facility is a catchphrase used in a series of reverse-psychology memes that were posted as a reaction to the United States' involvement in the 2025 Israel-Iran conflict when it struck various Iranian nuclear facilities, with users posting photographs of places in the United States they would like to see destroyed in such strikes. The format spread on TikTok, Instagram and X / Twitter in late June 2025, shortly after the operation took place.

Origin

On June 21st, 2025, during the anticipation period of the United States' strikes on Iranian nuclear sites which would occur on June 22nd as part of the 2025 Israel-Iran conflict, TikTok^[1] user @underpaid1969 posted a photograph of the Arrowhead Stadium, the home venue of the Kansas City Chiefs football team, with the caption, "Hopefully Iran doesn't try to destroy our top secret nuclear facility pictured here in the top left corner."

The post (shown below), which implied that @underpaid1969 actually wanted the venue destroyed by a strike and therefore pretended it was a valuable target and posted a picture of it, received over 4.1 million views and 470,000 likes in four days.

Spread

On June 23rd, 2025, X^[2] user @TOSportsAdam posted a similar meme, pairing a photograph of the Amerant Bank Arena, the home venue of the Florida Panthers hockey team, with the caption. The post (shown below) garnered over 340 reposts and 6,300 likes in three days.

On June 24th, 2025, the comedy TikTok account @corporatedudes posted another meme based on the format, which used a photograph of the former LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, California. The post (shown below) received over 192,000 likes on Instagram^[3] and 60,800 likes on TikTok^[4] in two days.

The format saw further spread on Instagram, TikTok and X in late June 2025. Notably, on June 26th, 2025, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk reposted a screenshot of @corporatedudes' meme, which garnered over 13,000 reposts and 234,000 likes on X^[5] in one day.

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