US bombs in Iran

Donald Trump said that the United States had hit three nuclear sites in Iran, joined Israel’s attacks on the country and moved America to another war in the Middle East.

The President said the US aircraft had dropped bombs on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan to deactivate the nuclear enrichment of the Islamic Republic and to reset their alleged pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“Tonight I can tell the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. The most important nuclear enrichment facilities of Iran were completely and completely wiped out,” said Trump in a disadvantage to the nation.

Trump said Iran now had to “make peace” and threatened more intensive attacks on the Islamic Republic if this was not the case.

“Future attacks would be far greater and much easier,” said Trump.

“This cannot go on. There will either be peace or a tragedy for Iran will be far greater than in the last eight days. Remember there are still many goals.”

Trump’s decision to go on Iran escalates the conflict in The Middle EastWhat had been in turbulence in 2023 since the attack in Hamas in 2023. There is a little more than a week after Israel started rockets in Iran, and Tehran has fallen back by having struck striking destinations in Israel in Israel.

The attack brings the risk of Iranian retaliation against the United States, especially on military bases and ships in the region as well as a possible disorder of oil supply from the most important energy generator region in the world.

On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of “a serious violation of the UN Charter”. “The events this morning are outrageous and will have eternal consequences,” he wrote.

“Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest and its people,” added Araghchi.

In a letter to the UN Secretary General, Iran also called for an emergency assembly of the Security Council.

Tehran also accused the head of the international nuclear energy agency “inactivity accompanied by complicity” in the United States and Israeli attacks on his nuclear sites and threatened legal steps.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s “courageous decision” and said that the US strikes against Iran would “change history”.

“In today’s lawsuit against the nuclear institutions of Iran, America was really unsurpassed. It did what no other country could do on earth,” he said.

However, the Israeli authorities also took defensive measures, completed the airspace completely and put the insidality on the “essential” activity to expect the Iranian retaliation measures. Both restrictions had been partially lifted in the past few days.

The US attacks mark a big turning point for Trump, who campaigned for his second term in a promise to be a peace pentee who ended “Forever Wars”.

It is a political game of chance for the president, whose Maga base between Hawks and those who believe that the United States should stay out of foreign conflicts.

Trump announced the attacks on Saturday on his social platform of truth and said that the planes had dropped “a full payload bombs”. On FordAnd were all safe on the way home.

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s chief diplomat, reacted to the US strikes by confirming that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons, but asked “all sides” to start negotiations.

“I ask all sides to resign, return to the negotiating table and prevent another escalation,” she said, adding that the 27 foreign minister of the EU would discuss the situation at a meeting previously passed.

The European capitals are still waiting for an independent assessment of the effects caused by the US bombing of the Iranian nuclear systems, two high -ranking officials from the FT said that they were about the uncertainty about the scope of the damage.

It was warned that it could take some time to assess the true result of the US attack, given the depth of the nuclear institutions and the difficulty of accessing areas that could theoretically withstand the bombs.

The British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer also asked Iran to return to the negotiating table and to achieve a diplomatic solution to “end this crisis”.

Economic Minister Jonathan Reynolds said that the United Kingdom was informed by the United States about his plans to start a military attack on Iran in advance, but no inquiry for the UK was made to support the campaign.

American “bunker bombs” bombs that were worn by the B-2 are considered the best chance to destroy the Iranian uranium enrichment system in Fordow, which is buried deep under a mountain.

After two decades of the debate in the United States, the bombing is about whether he should attack Iran, and seven years after Trump pulled his country out of a nuclear pact with Tehran, which President Barack Obama agrees.

Trump said on Saturday that he discussed the attacks with Netanyahu, who asked the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear sites for years.

“We worked as a team like no team ever worked before, and we have deleted this terrible threat to Israel,” said Trump.

A advisor to the Iranian Parliament’s speaker said Tehran expected an attack on Fordow.

“From an Iranian point of view, nothing happened too strange,” wrote Mahdi Mohammadi about X.

“Iran has been waiting for an attack on Fordow for a few nights. The location has been evacuated for some time and has not fulfilled irreversible damage due to the attack.”

After Trump was initially distant from the conflict, in the past few days he has considered whether the US military should be included in Israel’s efforts to reduce Iran’s nuclear program.

He apparently offered on Thursday Iran a two -week window achieve a diplomatic solution.

Joseph Votel, a retired general who headed US Central Command, monitored the American armed forces in the Middle East, Trump and his team tried to hide the time of the attack, including the two -week timeline of the President.

“It is quite clear that there was a deception plan,” said Votel, who worked as a centcom commander of Trump’s first term for two years.

Republican foreign policy falcons in the congress cheered the military step of the president. The US Senator Lindsey Graham said: “This was the right call”, while Senator Jim Risch, chairman of the influential committee for external relationships in the Senate, supported Trump’s “decisive measures” to support Israel.

However, some critics of the President said that he had gone beyond his constitutional authority.

Additional reporting from Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv