00:00Now, U.S. and Israel are launching strikes on Iran's Isfahan.
00:04The Wall Street Journal or the WSJ claimed that a major ammunition depot in Isfahan
00:09was blown up in these strikes.
00:12Huge explosions and fires lit up the sky after the blast.
00:15A large cloud of smoke was also seen from a distance following this attack.
00:20Now, the U.S. media further claimed that the U.S. used a 900 kg plus bunker buster
00:25in the strike that hit Iran's ammunition warehouse.
00:28Notably, Isfahan is also home to Iran's Badr military airbase.
00:34Reports also added that Donald Trump told his aides he is prepared to end the campaign against Iran
00:40even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
00:43The attack on Isfahan comes after Trump issued a warning to Iran
00:46telling the regime to make a deal or face further escalation.
00:51The U.S. president also said that American forces would, and I quote him,
00:55obliterate power plants in Iran if the Strait is not reopened.
01:03And now terrorism and Middle Eastern scholar Adrian Kalamil interacted with India today
01:09on these very U.S. strikes.
01:11Listen into what he had to say.
01:15There has been a massive blast and massive attack in Isfahan, the nuclear hub in Iran.
01:21Yeah, so that bit of context with the blast, now that, you know, that speaks more volumes.
01:30So, you know, I don't want to speculate this early on, but yeah, it is a nuclear hub.
01:35That is where the 400 kg of highly enriched uranium is located, deep buried underground.
01:43Going back to the 12-day war, you remember Forto and Natanz were the two sites that were in the
01:49news
01:50and were hit with the bunker busters.
01:52Only Tomahawk missiles were used on Isfahan.
01:56So there was the highly enriched uranium was left over there.
02:00And there's also, I think there was also some concerns that there were enrichment and reprocessing,
02:06or enrichment facilities there as well.
02:08But, yeah, this is a big development.
02:13One of the narratives about, you know, having U.S. special operators and marine units in the region
02:21is to go in and seize those nuclear weapons, or not nuclear weapons, but that enriched uranium.
02:29So that, so, because there was a belief that they could not get to them with the bunker busters.
02:39So a lot of talk and noise has been around U.S. special operators having to go in and seize
02:46that uranium themselves.
02:48So that may take it off the table.
02:51We'll have to see in the coming days.
02:53Right, Adrian, but this is not the first time that a nuclear hub has been targeted in this ongoing war.
02:58In fact, several times it has now happened.
03:01It's already the 32nd day of this war.
03:04We've seen there have been attacks on the nuclear hubs and then counterattacks also.
03:09Does this set a dangerous precedent?
03:12No, I don't think it does with hitting Isfahan, hitting Natanz, hitting those two sites,
03:24which are the two most problematic ones.
03:26Hitting a site like Boucher, that becomes a little more problematic because there could be an issue of radioactive fallout.
03:36And that's largely why it's been kind of left off the table and it's joint operated with the Russians.
03:43So I don't think, you know, this is, again, the Trump administration saying,
03:49if you're not going to negotiate and give us what we want, we're going to take it away from you
03:53militarily.
03:54This could be them taking away from it away from them militarily speaking.
03:59Thank you very much.
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