Kamal Ghorui
US President Donald Trump early Tuesday escalated his rhetoric and messaging around America’s military campaign against Iran, highlighting the scale of strikes carried out under Operation Epic Fury reportedly by B2 bunker busters. He shared a social media post showing Iran’s Isfahan site engulfed in flames.Earlier, Trump had warned that Iran’s energy infrastructure could be “obliterated” if a deal was not reached soon.The post, shared on Truth Social without a caption, showed massive explosions lighting up the night sky over Isfahan, a city of around 2.3 million people and home to the Badr military airbase.According to a US official cited by The Wall Street Journal, American forces struck a large ammunition depot in Isfahan using 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs. A significant number of penetrator munitions were reportedly used in the operation.Isfahan is also known to house enriched uranium linked to Iran’s nuclear programme. The city had previously been targeted during a US strike last year in summer under Operation Midnight Hammer, which focused on its nuclear facilities.
