THE US military has bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in an historic strike against the Islamic Republic.
America has now directly joined Israel’s campaign of bombing Iran as they both seek to obliterate Tehran’s nuclear program.
Posting on Truth Social, President Donald Trump said US bombers targeted Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan enrichment sites – all key to Iran’s doomsday project.
He wrote: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
“A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.”;
Trump added that “all planes are safely on their way home.
“Congratulations to our great American Warriors,”; he added.
The bombings come just two days after Trump said he would decide “within two weeks”; whether to join key ally Israel in attacking Iran.
In a phone call to Axios, Trump said: “We had a great success tonight. Your Israel is much safer now.”;
Though Tehran had threatened that a US intervention in the Middle East would be “a recipe for all-out war”; in the region.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported early Sunday that attacks targeted the country’s Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites.
IRNA quoted Akbar Salehi, Isfahan’s deputy governor in charge of security affairs, saying there had been attacks around the sites. He did not elaborate.
Another official confirmed an attack targeting Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear site.
Trump added in a later post that he would address the nation at 10pm ET, writing: “This is an HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ISRAEL, AND THE WORLD. IRAN MUST NOW AGREE TO END THIS WAR. THANK YOU!”;
The US military used their flagship B-2 bombers to drop six GBU-57Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) 30,000lb “bunker-buster”; bombs on Fordow, officials revealed.
They said the assessments indicated that the facility had been “taken off the table”;.
While 30 BGM-109 Tomahawk Land-Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAMs) were launched from submarines with the US Navy at the Natanz and Isfahan Nuclear Facilities.
It marked the first combat use of GBU-57 MOP in the history of warfare.
Earlier on Saturday, there were reports that six US B-2 bombers — which carry so-called “bunker buster”; bombs — were headed out of the US.
On Friday, the capable of dropping the bunker-buster bombs required to wipe out Iran’s most secretive nuclear facility – Fordow.
Israel said its airstrikes on Iran will not stop until it destroys the regime’s capability of enriching uranium to weapons-grade and making a nuclear weapon.
At the heart of its nuclear program, the , is encased in steel more than 300 feet beneath solid rock.
Israel’s arsenal lacked huge bunker-buster bombs needed to destroy the underground enrichment facility – some 125 miles from capital Tehran.
The attack now threatens to reignite America’s war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the last member of Iran’s self-described Axis of Resistance able to launch regular attacks.
The Houthis on Saturday warned they would resume attacking American ships in the Red Sea corridor if the US joined the Israeli campaign.
Israel launched a surprise barrage of attacks on sites in Iran on June 13, which Israeli officials said was necessary to head off what they claimed was an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs.
Iran, which has long insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, has retaliated with a series of missile and drone strikes in Israel, while Israel has continued to strike sites in Iran.
The US and Iran had been in talks that could have resulted in the US lifting some of its crushing economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran drastically limiting or ending its enrichment of uranium.
Until Saturday, Washington had helped shoot down Iranian strikes on Israel but had not launched direct attacks on Iran.
