The United States has bombarded three Iranian nuclear bases on Saturday night, as reported by President Trump himself, through his social networks. The action represents that Washington, by the hand of a president who campaigned ensuring that he would avoid being involved in conflicts abroad, is again involved in a war confrontation in the Middle East: he has inserted himself in the war between Israel and Iran, on the side of Israel.
The bases attacked are those of Fordo, where experts estimate that the bulk of the Iranian nuclear program is found; Natanz, and Isfahan, where it is believed that Tehran stores its largest ballistic missiles.
“We have completed our very successful attack against the three nuclear bases of Iran, including Fordo, Natanz, Isfahán. All aircraft are already out of the Iranian airspace” and back to their bases, the US President said, which this Saturday afternoon had held a meeting with his National Security Council in the White House.
Hours earlier, Bomberos B-2 aircraft had left their base in Wisconsin in the direction of Asia, as confirmed by high positions of the US government.
Trump, which in principle plans to attend next week to the NATO summit in The Hague, has added that on Fordo, “the main base”, “an entire bomb load” was thrown. According to Pentagon sources, the president referred to the antibunker bombs of more than 13,000 kilos known as GBU-57, the only ones considered with the capacity to achieve the necessary depth in the subsoil to reach Fordo, strongly protected inside the mountains south of Tehran.
“Congratulations to our phenomenal American warriors, there is no other army in the world that could have done it. Now the time of peace has come,” concludes the US president.
The United States keeps about 40,000 soldiers in the Middle East. In addition, given the tensions in the region, it had reinforced its military presence in the Middle East with the sending of f-16 fighters, F-22 and F-35, in addition to the Nimitz aircraft carrier, which moved to the region from the Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile, the US president used an increasingly warlike rhetoric to demand Iran to agree to end their uranium processing activities and ensure that in no case would that country be allowed to be done with nuclear armament. Last Monday he had urged Tehran’s population to evacuate the Iranian capital “as soon as possible.” But three days later he announced, in the mouth of his spokesman, Karoline Leavitt, that a two -week period to decide would be given, to give the diplomatic route a chance. That term ended up only 48 hours.
The Republican said he will give a message about Air attacks to Iran at 22.00 in Washington from the White House. “This is a historical moment for the United States of America, Israel and the world. Iran must now accept ending this war,” he wrote.
The American offensive released by Trump has been launched only 24 hours after the meeting this Friday of European representatives with Iranian Foreign Minister in Geneva to try to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program.
The same Friday, in statements while heading to his golf club in Bedminster (New Jersey) and a few hours after he concluded that round of conversations, Trump had declared pessimistic about the possibility that these contacts could give some type of positive result.
“The Iranians don’t want to talk to Europeans. They want to talk to us,” he said then. “Europe will not be able to help.”
Also in those statements, the American leader was very critical of his intelligence services and the National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard. The former congressman had declared in March that Iran was not preparing to get a nuclear bomb. “He is wrong,” Trump declared.
Iran has denied again and again being developing nuclear weapons. But Israel rejects those statements and on June 13 he launched a first attack against Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Tehran returned the blow the next day, and since then both countries regularly exchange fire. In their attacks, Israeli planes have sought to dismantle the anti -aircraft defenses system of their enemy.
At least 430 people have died and more than 3,500 have been injured in Iran since the beginning of the wave of Israeli attacks, according to the Iranian news agency Nour News, cited by Reuters. In Israel, Iranian missiles and drones have killed 24 civilians, according to local authorities, also cited by Reuters.
