The Pentagon says more than 3,000 targets across Iran have been struck in just seven days, as Operation Epic Fury unleashes almost continuous waves of US air and missile attacks, with Tehran now enduring some of the heaviest bombardments in its modern history.

Newly released cockpit and satellite footage shows arcs of cruise missiles and laser‑guided bombs slamming into Revolutionary Guard bases, air‑defence sites and suspected missile depots around the capital. Night‑vision clips circulating on social media capture whole industrial blocks in western and southern Tehran erupting into fireballs as secondary explosions rip through fuel and ammunition stores.

US Central Command calls it a “relentless degradation campaign,” claiming command bunkers, drone hubs, radar farms and underground tunnel entrances have been pounded “hour by hour” to break Iran’s capacity to hit Israel, US bases and Gulf allies. Officials insist civilian areas are being avoided, though they concede many targets sit “dangerously close” to dense neighbourhoods.

Tehran tells a very different story. State media says residential districts have been showered with glass and debris, hospitals are overwhelmed and large parts of the power grid around the capital have suffered rolling blackouts. Iranian commanders vow that waves of ballistic missiles and Shahed‑class drones will continue to answer Epic Fury “until the aggressors beg for a ceasefire.”

As the world watches “hellfire” footage from Tehran’s burning outskirts, diplomats warn that statistics like “3,000 targets in 7 days” may impress war planners—but for millions of civilians under the blasts, they also signal a conflict racing toward a point where neither side can easily pull back.