{"id":3798,"date":"2025-06-22T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:38:24","slug":"trump-confirms-us-bombed-three-iranian-nuclear-sites-including-fordow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/22\/trump-confirms-us-bombed-three-iranian-nuclear-sites-including-fordow","title":{"rendered":"Trump Confirms US Bombed Three Iranian Nuclear Sites, Including Fordow"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US military has struck three key Iranian nuclear facilities\u2014Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan\u2014marking a major escalation in the Middle East conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The airstrikes, carried out using bunker-buster bombs and long-range cruise missiles, signify the United States\u2019 direct entry into the war alongside Israel.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to Truth Social just before 8pm Washington time, Trump declared that Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure had been \u201ccompletely and fully obliterated.\u201d He warned Tehran against retaliating, saying the US was prepared to strike again \u201cwith precision, speed and skill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days,\u201d Trump said during a national address from the White House.<\/p>\n

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran confirmed the strikes on the three nuclear facilities but maintained that operations would continue. It said radiation monitors had detected no contamination, and that surrounding communities faced no immediate danger.<\/p>\n

This strike follows over a week of Israeli bombardments aimed at degrading Iran\u2019s missile capabilities and weakening its air defenses. Israeli officials had previously indicated that only the US had the capability to destroy deeply buried nuclear sites like Fordow using the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, deliverable only by American B-2 stealth bombers.<\/p>\n

In a social media update, Trump claimed: \u201cAll 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.\u201d Later, he called the moment \u201chistoric\u201d and urged Iran to surrender to end the war.<\/p>\n

Iran has not formally retaliated yet but had earlier warned of \u201cirreparable damage\u201d if the US became involved. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Foreign Ministry had issued grave warnings against any American intervention.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump\u2019s decision, calling it a bold move that \u201cwill change history.\u201d US media outlets reported that six bunker busters struck Fordow and up to 30 Tomahawk missiles hit Natanz and Isfahan.<\/p>\n

The decision has drawn global concern. UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres expressed alarm at the \u201cdangerous escalation,\u201d warning of catastrophic consequences for civilians and the region.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s allies have issued their own threats. Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels said they would resume attacks on US naval vessels in the Red Sea if American military involvement continued. The US began emergency evacuation flights from Israel amid fears of wider conflict. Israel also shut down its airspace indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Trump, who once promised to keep America out of foreign entanglements, had spent months pursuing diplomacy with Tehran before pivoting to military action. His administration had reportedly delayed Israeli strikes in April and May in hopes of reaching a nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

Critics within Trump\u2019s own MAGA base have expressed concern about the shift from diplomacy to war. But Trump, in his latest messaging, made clear he would not tolerate any path that leads Iran closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know exactly where the so-called \u2018Supreme Leader\u2019 is hiding,\u201d Trump said in a provocative post. \u201cWe are not going to take him out\u2014at least not for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

This military intervention comes seven years after Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which he had derided as one of the worst diplomatic agreements ever signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US military has struck three key Iranian nuclear facilities\u2014Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan\u2014marking a major escalation in the Middle East conflict. The airstrikes, carried out using bunker-buster bombs and long-range cruise missiles, signify the United States\u2019 direct entry into the war alongside Israel. In a statement posted …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1867,245,1868,58,1869],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-fordow","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-sites","tag-trump","tag-us-airstrikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}