Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that U.S. bombers had carried out a strike in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, after President Trump shared a video showing huge explosions lighting up the night sky after the attack.
The video, which Mr. Trump shared on Truth Social late Monday and whose authenticity was verified by The New York Times, shows the aftermath of an airstrike south of Isfahan. Mr. Hegseth said at a news briefing that the video Mr. Trump had shared was from the strike and that it had targeted an Iranian ammunition depot.
It was unclear from the videos alone what the target of the attack was or what kind of damage had been done. Iran’s government and state media did not immediately comment on the strike.
The footage shows large, fiery explosions and clouds of smoke rising south of Isfahan. An enormous cloud of smoke rises between mountains on the outskirts of the city. The footage also shows what appears to be multiple smaller explosions.
The video shared by Mr. Trump, and others showing the strike in Isfahan, was posted earlier by Vahid Online, an aggregator that frequently shares footage from Iran. It has become one of the few sources of video from the country as Iran’s government has severely restricted internet service since the U.S.-Israeli attacks began Feb. 28.
At least one of the explosions appears to have been in the area of an Iranian air base, also in the south of Isfahan. The footage shows several large clouds and multiple secondary explosions rising in the night sky.
The Times verified the footage posted by Mr. Trump by matching visible geographical and physical features to satellite imagery of the surroundings of Isfahan and to other authenticated videos posted early on Tuesday that depicted the same explosions from different angles.
Isfahan, a historic city and tourist center with about two million residents, is also a center for weapons production and housing for small nuclear facilities. A more important nuclear site outside the city, believed to house enriched uranium, was struck by the U.S. military in June 2025.
The U.S. military said on Saturday that it had struck more than 11,000 targets in Iran since the American-Israeli assault began. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday that U.S. forces were now focusing on “interdicting and destroying the logistical and supply chains” that formed Iran’s military-industrial base.
Jon Hazell contributed reporting.
Sanjana Varghese is a reporter on The Times’s Visual Investigations team, specializing in the use of advanced digital techniques to analyze visual evidence.
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