Associated Press
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
The decision to directly involve the U.S. comes after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran that have moved to systematically eradicate the country’s air defenses and offensive missile capabilities, while damaging its nuclear enrichment facilities. But U.S. and Israeli officials have said that American stealth bombers and a 30,000-lb. bunker buster bomb they alone can carry offered the best chance of destroying heavily-fortified sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground.
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump said in a post on social media. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.”
The strikes are a perilous decision for the U.S. as Iran has pledged to retaliate if it joined the Israeli assault, and for Trump personally, having won the White House on the promise of keeping America out of costly foreign conflicts and scoffed at the value of American interventionism.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
4 comments
Sam Rheinhart
June 21, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Trump is a solid ally of Israel. Moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Now supporting Israel militarily. The South Florida Democrats are too stupid to realize this lead by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Get rid of her you Demos.
Sam Rheinhart
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Of course the Demos will lose their minds over this. Kamala still looking for Iran on a map. Firebombers / King protestors are trying to figure out their next move
Cat 5 Desantis
June 21, 2025 at 9:32 pm
Bibi Lied American Died In Iraq
Paul Passarelli
June 21, 2025 at 10:52 pm
Seems Iran decided to FAFO. Earlier today I saw tens of thousands shouting “Death to America”. It’s a pity that they were using rhetoric in a street brawl. However, they got off easy. They got their legs swept. They got their hand broken. And their nose is bleeding. But we did not destroy them in their entirety. Their people are still walking the earth, their civilian infrastructure is still intact. And if they stop and admit they are defeated, we will welcome them back into the realm of free and independent nations; but they gotta want it more than their ego.