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Iran nuclear sites attacked by U.S., Fordo bombed

Pictures of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, who were killed in the Israeli attack on June 13 over the road, where a pillar of severe smoke and fire rises on an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an Israeli strike overnight, on June 15, 2025.

Atta Kenari AFP | Gety pictures

president Donald Trump On Saturday he said US He attacked Iran, and hit three nuclear Sites in Fordo, Natanz, and Spohan.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Ford, Natanz, and Esbalan,” Trump wrote on Social media Saturday.

“All aircraft are now outside the Iranian air area. A full load of bombs has been dropped on the basic site, Ford,” Trump wrote.

“All the planes are safe on their way home. Congratulations to our great American warriors. No other army in the world could have done this. It is time for peace!” The president wrote.

Trump said he would address the nation at 10 pm East time on Saturday.

This measure puts the United States in a direct armed conflict with Iran, a tremendous escalation in its participation with Israel’s efforts to ship the Tehran nuclear program and topple its regime.

The decision also again the US military in the active war in the Middle East – something Trump He pledged to avoid during his second term in his position.

It also represents a major shift from less than 48 hours, when Trump said that the United States would take two weeks to see if the conflict between Israel and Iran can be resolved diplomatically.

“Based on the fact that there is a great opportunity for negotiations that may take place or do not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether I will go during the next two weeks,” Trump said on Thursday in a statement issued by the White House.

Behind the scenes, the Trump administration is trying to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, and Trump has been in recent months It is said Urging the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu To stop a strike.

This diplomatic path may now be closed. “Any American military entry will undoubtedly meet unreasonable damage.”

“If they enter militarily, they will face an unimaginable harm,” he added in a statement read on Iranian government television.

People stand on a roof on the surface in a smoke that escalates in the wake of an Israeli blow during the night in Tehran on June 17, 2025.

Atta Kenari AFP | Gety pictures

Trump has insisted that the United States “has nothing to do with an attack on Iran”, as she wrote on social media that “we can easily obtain a deal between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict !!!”

But since Israel’s strikes seem to deal with dangerous strikes of many major Iranian military and nuclear targets, Trump’s tone seemed to turn into a more aggressive position.

On Tuesday, Trump threatened the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khawni, describing him as a “easy goal” and wrote that “the patience of America is wearing.”

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Trump and former US presidents have long insisted that Iran could not have nuclear weapons.

Trump, in his first term, removed the United States from a The nuclear agreement The Obama administration and other countries were mediated with Iran in 2015, on the pretext that it failed to protect America or deter the goals of Tehran’s enrichment.

Israel has long claimed that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, and threatened the necessity of its nuclear program before. But so far, Tel Aviv has limited her military participation in targeted assassinations and electronic attacks.

Toulcy Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, Trump, in front of Congress in March that the American intelligence community “continues to evaluate that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon and the Supreme Leader Khayni has not declared the nuclear weapons program that it suspended in 2003.”

On Tuesday, Trump rejected the evaluation of his cabinet official. “I don’t care what I said. I think they were about to get one,” Trump said in the Air Force.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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2025-06-22 00:24:00

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