US President Trump Claims Success After Bombing Key Iran Nuclear Sites

US President Trump Claims Success After Bombing Key Iran Nuclear Sites.

Mr. Trump Address To The Nation From The White House

US Strikes on three sites, including Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear installation, injected the U.S. directly into Israel’s war. President Trump warned of more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”

The United States has entered Israel’s war against Iran.

American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, bringing the U.S. military directly into the war after days of uncertainty about whether President Trump would intervene.

“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror,” Mr. Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House.

Mr. Trump said American bombers had hit Iran’s two major uranium enrichment centers: the mountain facility at Fordo and a larger enrichment plant at Natanz, which Israel struck several days ago with smaller weapons. A third site near the ancient city of Isfahan where Iran is believed to keep near-bomb-grade uranium was also bombed.

He also threatened more action against Iran if it did not return to diplomatic efforts.

“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” Mr. Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House on Saturday night. “If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”

Iranian officials confirmed that the three sites had been attacked, including a spokesman for the Emergency Committee of Qom, a city near Fordo, who said that enemy forces had bombed “parts of the Fordo nuclear facility,” according to the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards. Three Iranian officials said that Fordo and Natanz had been bombed around 2:30 a.m. local time on Sunday.