US attacks Iranian nuclear site as Tehran hits oil tanker off Dubai coast

Isfahan is home to one of three sites earlier attacked by the US military in June and some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely stored or buried or there

A portrait of Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, is seen as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon (Hassan Ammar/AP)

The US has hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan sending a massive fireball into the sky as Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.

The attacks on Tuesday were testament to the intensity of the month-long war the US and Israel launched against Iran, which has maintained its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, closing off the vital waterway for global energy shipments, sending oil prices skyrocketing and roiling world markets.