US STRIKES hit a city on Tuesday that is home to one of Iran’s main nuclear sites, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran attacked a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The attacks were a testament to the intensity of the war more than a month after the US and Israel launched their first strikes. The conflict has left more than 3,000 dead and caused majordisruptions to theworld’s supply of oil and natural gas. On Tuesday, the average price of gasoline in the US shot past USD 4agallon - just another sign of the war’s effects far beyond the Middle East. US President Donald Trump, who has vacillated between insisting there is progress in diplomatic talks with Iran and threatening to widen the war, shared footage of the attack on Isfahan. The central city is home to one of three nuclear enrichment sites attacked by the US ina12-daywarinJune,andanalysts believe much of Iran’s highly enriche duranium is likely stored there. Israel and the US launch a new wave of strikes on Iran Israel and the US launched a wave of strikes on Iran, hitting Tehran in the early morning. The video shared by Trump appeared to show a massive attack on Isfahan, and NASA fire-tracking satellites suggest explosions happened in a mountainous region on the city’s southern edge. Iran has not confirmed the attack. A satellite image taken just before the June war suggests Tehran transferreda truckload of highly enriched uranium to a nuclear facility about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Tuesday’s strikes. Analysts believe the truck - which the imageshowed goingintoa tunnel loaded with 18 blue containers - likely carried most or all of Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched up to 60 per cent purity.That’s a short, technical step to weapons-grade levels.