US strikes Iran city home to nuclear site

The U.S. military on Tuesday struck the Iranian city of Isfahan, where one of the country’s main nuclear sites is located.

The Isfahan Nuclear Energy Center was one of three facilities that U.S. B-2 bombers and a submarine hit last June. The Associated Press reported that analysts believe much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely stored at the Isfahan site. 

President Trump also shared a video of the aftermath on his Truth Social platform, which shows flames billowing into the sky, as more missiles approached the area. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday at an early morning press briefing that U.S. forces bombed an ammunition depot in Isfahan.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that the military hit the depot with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs, much smaller versions of the bombs used to strike the three nuclear facilities last summer, citing a U.S. official.

Alongside Hegseth, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that the U.S. military has struck more than 11,000 targets inside Iran since the conflict broke out late last month. In an update on social platform X, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said that it had targeted command and control centers, headquarters and intelligence sites of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile sites, navy ships and submarines and air defense systems.

As of Tuesday, 1,574 civilians in Iran, including at least 236 children, have been killed since the war began on Feb. 28, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

While the conflict continues, Trump has touted talks with Iranian officials while also threatening strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and overseeing a build-up of U.S. troops in addition to the more than 50,000 service members already in the Middle East. 

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said that while officials from his country have not negotiated with members of the Trump administration since the war began, the U.S. submitted a “negotation request” through intermediaries, including Pakistan. 

Filip Timotija contributed reporting.

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