The United States launches strikes in 3 Iranian nuclear facilities, says Trump

Washington – The United States launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, President Trump announced Saturday night, calling them a “spectacular military success.”

“The United States Army carried out massive precision attacks in the three key nuclear assemblies in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan,” President Trump said in a national discourse of the White House on Saturday night. “Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat represented by the world number one sponsor.”

Before his speech, the president wrote on his Truth social platform that a “complete payload” in the “main site” of Fordo was withdrawn. The president also said that all US planes safely came out of Iranian airspace.

And in second place, Trump wrote: “This is a historical moment for the United States of America, Istael (sic) and the world. They will now accept to end this war. Thank you!”

Trump warns Iran against reprisals after US attacks.

The President He went to the nation Regarding the strikes on Saturday night, saying that “the key nuclear enrichment facilities of Iran have been fully erased” and issuing a warning to Iran to fight for a peace agreement in their war with Israel.

“There will be peace, or there will be a tragedy to Iran much greater than we have witnessed in the last eight days,” Trump said while flanking by vice president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “Remember, there are many goals.”

Mr. Trump added that “if peace does not come quickly, we will pursue those other objectives with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be drawn in a matter of minutes.”

Iran has promised to retaliate if the United States joined the Israeli assaultwhich began with air attacks in Iranian nuclear sites and military objectives on June 13. Iran has responded with missile attacks and drones against Israeli cities.

But in a monitoring publication on social networks after his national speech, Trump said that “any reprisals for Iran against the United States of America will find a much greater force than was seen tonight.”

What we know so far about US strikes

Two senior officials of the Department of Defense confirmed to News themezone that three American B-2 bombers were accustomed to attack at the local time of early Sunday, with each of those B-2 armed with 2 produced in the United States. “Bunker-Buster” bombs Known as GBU-57 massive artillery penetrators, or mops, pumps so heavy that they could only be abandoned by a B-2.

Fordo, the site of a high -grade uranium enrichment installation That international experts believe that it is key to Iran’s nuclear program, is buried almost 300 feet under a mountain and protected by important aerial defenses. It is believed that the MOP is the best opportunity to destroy the fordo facilities.

The officials told News themezone Natanz and Isfahan were beaten by the Tomahawk missiles launched by submarines. It is not clear how many missiles they launched in those two places.

The United States communicated with Iran Diplomatically on Saturday to say that strikes are all US plans. And that regime change efforts are not planned, sources said. Earl this weekseveral American officials told News themezone that Trump opposed an Israeli plan to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.

Not all the United States allies in the region who house US troops that are part of the United States central command were informed before the next United States plan to attack Iran, according to diplomatic sources. Some of the allies were informed as the airplanes were in the air.

The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency declared in a publication on social networks that confirms “without increasing radiation levels outside the site” following the attacks of the United States.

What Israeli and Iranian officials say

The United States alerted Israel before strikes, two White House officials said to News themezone. Mr. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke after the strikes, the officials said. And in a video address, Netanyahu praised the president for strikes.

“President Trump and I often say peace through force. First comes the strength, then peace comes. And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted very strongly.”

According to the Iranian state media, Irna, Morteza Heidari, spokesman for the crisis headquarters in the province of Qom of Iran, acknowledged that there were attacks in the three nuclear sites. Iran’s atomic energy organization also confirmed the attacks in a statement, but said that the attacks will not prevent it from progressing in its nuclear program. He also asked the international community to condemn the attacks.

And in a position on social networks on Sunday morning, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that “according to” the United Nations Charter “and their provisions, they will reserve all the options to defend their sovereignty, interest and people.”

Araghchi claimed that the United States in his attack had “committed a serious violation of the UN Charter.”

National Security officials are monitoring the possible physical and cybernetic reprisals of the United States attack, in the country amid a “very high” threat level and with the “red line” of the Iranian response doctrine now crossed, has learned News themezone.

“We are in an unwavering territory,” said a United States intelligence officer to News themezone, while talking about possible Iranian threats to the US homeland. “We do not know how they will react to this because this is the highest rate of tension and conflict that we have had in recent history. We are simply not sure how the Khomeini regime will react.”

The official added that the evaluations range from little or no action by the Iranians to the desperate and drastic action.

American legislators give mixed answer

The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, was informed ahead of the attacks, according to a family source.

The response of US legislators It has been mixed. Some Republicans, including Johnson, expressed their support for strikes, while others, such as the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a fervent partisan of Trump, published in X that “this is not our fight.”

Both the leader of the minority of the democratic chamber Hakeem Jeffries and the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, criticized the president for not seeking the authorization of Congress for strikes.

“President Trump cheated the country about his intentions, failed to seek the authorization of Congress for the use of military force and risks in the American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East,” Jeffries said.

Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, vice president of the Select Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Trump campaigned in the promise to “end the endless foreign wars.”

“Tonight, it took measures that could drag the United States to another, without consulting Congress, without a clear strategy, without taking into account the consistent conclusions of the intelligence community, and without explaining to the US people what is at stake,” Warner said.

The events that led to the surprise strikes

The earliest Saturday, several US officials had confirmed to News themezone that B-2 Bombers had left the Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri on the way to Guam. Multiple tank trucks for American air air resupply were seen in commercial flight trackers that fly flight patterns consistent with the airplane escort from the center of the United States to the Pacific.

American strikes come after Araghchi met with European officials In Geneva Friday and said he was open to a greater dialogue.

“Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again,” said Araghchi, added: “Focus that Iran’s defense capabilities are not negotiable. (But) I express our willingness to meet again in the near future.”

On Thursday, the president said he would decide whether to attack Iran “in the next two weeks.” A source told News themezone at that time that Trump “believes that there are not many options. Finishing the job means destroying fordo.”

United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Said the earliest Saturday That the United States had begun to evacuate Americans and Israel’s green card holders aboard assisted departure flights. Two flights appeared from Tel Aviv to Athens with approximately 70 US citizens, their immediate family members and permanent legal residents, said the State Department before Mr. Trump’s announcement of strikes.

Meanwhile, the White House released photos of the situation room during the strikes. In the room with the president were Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, president of the Joint Chiefs Dan Caine, CIA director John Ratcliffe, director of National Intelligence Toulsi Gabbard, special envoy of Middle East Steve Witkoff, Chief of the White House of the White House, Susie Wiles, Head of Staff Staff Dan Scavino, Subsiser of National Security and Contractor of the White House. Secretary of the White House and the Secretary of the White House.

Gabbard’s presence in the room was significant, like Friday, Mr. Trump He said to journalists that he was “wrong” when he testified to Congress in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

Hegseth and Caine They were scheduled To celebrate an informative session of the Pentagon at 8 in the morning, the east time of Sunday to provide an update on the assault.

Nicole Snganga, Aaron Navarro, Margaret Brennan, James Laporta and Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.

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