US warplanes dropped massive bombs on three nuclear sites inside Iran on Saturday, June 21, more than a week after Israel launched strikes against Iran that targeted its nuclear program and military leaders.
“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,” Trump said during his four-minute speech from the White House Cross Hall.
Iran, which insists its nuclear program is peaceful, retaliated Monday by firing about a dozen ballistic missiles at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest US military installation in the Middle East. But Tehran tipped both the United States and Qatar that the strike was coming, and air defenses were able to intercept all but one of…
