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\n\tPresident Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. has carried out a \u201csuccessful\u201d attack on multiple nuclear sites in Iran. The news comes amid Israel\u2019s military strikes and as Fox News has appeared to encourage the U.S. to become directly involved in the conflict. Just months ago, Trump\u2019s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified to Congress that American intelligence \u201ccontinues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,\u201d he posted on Truth Social, his social media website, which has been periodically crashing since.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAll planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAll planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShortly after, he posted: \u201cFordow is gone.\u201d He said he would be addressing the nation at 10 p.m. ET regarding what he described as \u201cour very successful military operation in Iran.\u201d Calling the moment \u201chistoric\u201d for the U.S., Israel, and the world, he added: \u201cIRAN MUST NOW AGREE TO END THIS WAR.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring his address to the nation on Saturday evening, Trump said, \u201cOur objective was the destruction of Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world\u2019s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran\u2019s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe said that his administration \u201cworked as a team\u201d with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday\u2019s military operation. \u201cThere will be peace, or there will be tragedy for Iran,\u201d he said, noting that \u201cthere are many targets left,\u201d and threatened that \u201cif peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tTrump had previously been attempting to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, after withdrawing from Barack Obama\u2019s deal with Iran in his first term as president. On Thursday, Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president would make a decision on whether to attack Iran \u201cwithin two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tReuters reported earlier in the day on Saturday that the U.S. is moving B-2 bombers across the Pacific Ocean to Guam. This is the only aircraft that can drop the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, which can reach targets deep underground.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Israel Defense Forces has been attacking Iran for more than a week. On Saturday, it said it attacked three Iranian F-14 fighter jets. \u201cThe Iranian regime\u2019s missile launch capabilities are merely a fraction of what they were at the outset of the operation,\u201d IDF Brigadier General Effie Defrin told The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tIsrael had previously attacked Natanz, but did not have the capabilities to attack Fordow, which is heavily fortified and underground. On Wednesday, CNN called attacking Fordow from the air \u201ca near-impossible task.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIsrael can hover over those nuclear facilities, render them inoperable, but if you really want to dismantle them it\u2019s either a US military strike or a deal,\u201d Brett McGurk, a former top diplomat to the Middle East under the first Trump and Biden administrations, told CNN on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m not looking for a cease-fire, we\u2019re looking at better than a cease-fire,\u201d Trump told reporters earlier this week, as he flew back to the U.S. from the G7 summit in Canada.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tDuring the 2024 presidential race, Trump campaigned on ensuring \u201cthe Middle East return to real peace,\u201d pledging to \u201cstop the chaos in the Middle East.\u201d During Trump\u2019s birthday military parade, which took place this time last week, Vice President J.D. Vance told the troops, \u201cThe way that we honor and respect you is number one, we never ask you to go to war unless you absolutely have to.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis article was updated with Trump\u2019s address to the nation on Saturday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. has carried out a \u201csuccessful\u201d attack on multiple nuclear sites in Iran. The news comes amid Israel\u2019s military strikes and as Fox News has appeared to encourage the U.S. to become directly involved in the conflict. Just months ago, Trump\u2019s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1102,1103,84,220,1105,204,81,1104,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-9166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bombed","9":"tag-facilities","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-nuclear","12":"tag-post","13":"tag-social","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-truth","16":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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