President Trump on Monday night shared footage of a major explosion in Isfahan, Iran, the result of what US officials said was an attack on an ammunition depot that involved dropping massive 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs.
The video the president posted last night of Isfahan, an ammo depot struck by US bombers,” US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at a press briefing on Tuesday morning.
Hegseth, Trump, and other top US officials have focused their comments about the war on the number of strikes and the number of targets the US has struck inside Iran while downplaying the fact that Iran continues to launch drone and missile attacks across the region and is controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
“Just last night, we had 200 dynamic strikes alone. Dynamic strike is a strike where a pilot leaves, and during their flight, they get a new target set based on real-time intel given to them,” Hegseth said.
Trump’s post comes as he is threatening to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure if a diplomatic deal isn’t reached and Iranian officials continue to deny that negotiations are taking place. On Monday, Trump added Iran’s desalination plants to the list of infrastructure he would “blow up,” threatening what would be a clear war crime under the Geneva Convention.
US-Israeli strikes have continued to pound residential areas and hit other civilian targets. More than 1,500 Iranian civilians have been reported killed in the bombing campaign.
