Pictures of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists are displayed above a road killed in Israel’s 13 June attack, as heavy smoke and increase in fire on an oil refinery in Southern Tehran, after being hit in the Israeli strike overnight on 15 June, 2025.
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chairman Donald Trump Said on Saturday United States Iran attacked, killed three Nuclear Sites in Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan.
Trump wrote, “We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan.” Social media Saturday.
Trump wrote, “All the aircraft are now outside the Iran Air Space. A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordo.”
“All the aircraft are safely on the way to the house. Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another army in the world that could do so. Now is the time of peace!” The President wrote.
Trump said that he would address the nation in ET at 10 am on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, on Saturday, several US Air Force B -2 stealth bombers left Missouri, moving west over the Pacific Ocean. Large-scale aircraft GBU-57 are the only American aircraft capable of carrying Ordnance Marmist (MOP), 30,000 pound bomb Known as “Bunker Buster”.
Saturday’s action put the United States in a direct armed conflict with Iran, with the efforts of the Tehran’s nuclear program and ending its rule, its participation increased a large scale in its participation.
This decision once again attaches the US Army in an active war in the Middle East – some Tusrap The office vowed to escape during his second term.
It also marks a big innings from less than 48 hours before, when Trump said the United States would take “two weeks” to see if the conflict between Israel and Iran could be diplmed diplomatically.
Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Thursday on Thursday, “Based on the fact whether there is enough opportunity to interact with Iran in the near future, I will decide whether to go within the next two weeks or not.”
Behind the curtain, the Trump administration is trying to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, and in recent months, Trump did Allegedly Irred to the Prime Minister of Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu Stop on strike.
Infographic with a map of Iran showing atomic sites, reactors and uranium mines.
Sylvie Husson, Nalini Lepetit-CHELLA, graphic by Sabrina Blanchard | AFP | Via getty image
That diplomatic route can now be closed. Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently stated that “any American military entry will undoubtedly get with irreparable damage.”
In a statement read on the Iranian state television, he said, “If they enter military, they will have to face losses, which they cannot recover,” they said in a statement on Iranian state television.
After the US attacks, it was not clear what options remained for an Iranian vengeance against the United States.
A possibility with direct effects on the global economy and supply chain would be that Tehran was to set landmines in the Straight of Hormuz, said Hellima Croft, head of the Global Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
The narrow body of water between Iran and Oman is a transit point for about 20% of the world’s oil through tanker vessels.
Landmines will effectively shut down the straight, as the ships would not know where the mines were placed.
“We are already reporting that Iran ship is very aggressively jammed transponders,” Croft told CNBC that “Fast money“On Wednesday.
Croft said that the Ministry of Qatanjee and Greek Shipping has already warned its ships that Croft said as much as possible, as much as possible, Croft said.
Such more alerts were expected after Saturday’s US attack on Iranian sites.
Infographic with Bay map in September 2024 showing sea tanker traffic via Hormuz Strait
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Trump and previous American presidents have long stressed that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
Trump evacuated America in his first term Nuclear agreement The Obama administration and other countries broke out with Iran in 2015, arguing that it failed to protect America or failed to stop Tehran’s promotion objectives.
Israel has long claimed that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons, and threatened to attack its nuclear program before. But so far, Tel Aviv has limited its military engagement to targeted murders and cyber attacks.
Tulsi Gabbard, director of Trump of National Intelligence, testified to the Congress in March that the American intelligence “continues to assess that Iran is not making a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khameni has not authorized the nuclear weapon program that he had suspended in 2003.”
But Trump has repeatedly rejected the assessment of his own cabinet officer.
Trump said in an Air Force last week, “I don’t care what he said. I think he was very close to being one.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
